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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conduction \Con*duc"tion\ (k[o^]n*d[u^]k"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
conductio a bringing together: cf F. conduction.]
1. The act of leading or guiding. --Sir W. Raleigh.
2. The act of training up [Obs.] --B. Jonson
3. (Physics) Transmission through or by means of a
conductor; also conductivity.
[The] communication [of heat] from one body to
another when they are in contact or through a
homogenous body from particle to particle,
constitutes conduction. --Amer. Cyc.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
conduction
n : the transmission of heat or electricity or sound [syn: {conductivity}]
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