ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrical conduction mean? 

• ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION (noun)
  The noun ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION has 1 sense:

1. the passage of electricity through a conductor

  Familiarity information: ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The passage of electricity through a conductor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("electrical conduction" is a kind of...):

conduction; conductivity (the transmission of heat or electricity or sound)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electrical conduction"):

photoconduction; photoconductivity (change in the electrical conductivity of a substance as a result of absorbing electromagnetic radiation)

superconductivity (the disappearance of electrical resistance at very low temperatures)

arc; discharge; electric arc; electric discharge; spark (electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field)