Definition of conductive
: having conductivity : relating to conduction (as of electricity)
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Another way of viewing this is as a conductive material that allows charges to travel across it in the form of protons, rather than electrons.
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So the Federal Aviation Administration is funding research to make this costly conductive concrete more affordable.
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The jacket incorporates Google's Jacquard technology, which includes electrically-conductive yarn that allows certain parts of clothing to function like mini-touchscreens.
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The two-year-old start-up has licensed technology developed at UC San Diego to mass produce graphene — a strong, conductive material that is one-atom thick.
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Surface plasmons are clouds of electrons that oscillate over a conductive surface.
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Wang and his team cut sandpaper into rectangles with lasers and covered them in thin layers of gold and other conductive materials.
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O’Connor made the sensors by painting the thin layer of conductive carbon onto a stretchy plastic.
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Makey Makey - Participants created a banana piano, played video games with Play-Doh and used other participants to play the bongos with Makey Makey, which can turn any conductive material into a keyboard.
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First Known Use of conductive
1840
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of conductive
1
: having conductivity : relating to conduction (as of electricity)
2
: caused by failure in the mechanisms for sound transmission in the external or middle ear
- conductive hearing loss
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