SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superconductivity mean? 

• SUPERCONDUCTIVITY (noun)
  The noun SUPERCONDUCTIVITY has 1 sense:

1. the disappearance of electrical resistance at very low temperatures

  Familiarity information: SUPERCONDUCTIVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERCONDUCTIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The disappearance of electrical resistance at very low temperatures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("superconductivity" is a kind of...):

electrical conduction (the passage of electricity through a conductor)

 Context examples 

The newly discovered behavior is important because quantum materials with very large spin-orbit interaction are popular candidates for new materials and exotic superconductivity.

(Iridium 'loses its identity' when interfaced with nickel, National Science Foundation)

Harnessing spin to power a functioning quantum computer is a more scalable approach than using superconductivity, and we believe that using spin could lead to a quantum computer which is far more robust, since spin interactions are set by the laws of nature, said Lepage.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)