conduction
noun/kənˈdʌkʃn/
/kənˈdʌkʃn/
[uncountable] (physics)- the process by which heat or electricity passes through a materialWord Originmid 16th cent. (in the senses ‘provision for safe passage’ and ‘leadership’): from Latin conductio(n-), from the verb conducere ‘bring together’.
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