CONDUCTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conductive mean? 

• CONDUCTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CONDUCTIVE has 1 sense:

1. having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity

  Familiarity information: CONDUCTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDUCTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity

Similar:

semiconducting; semiconductive (having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors)

Antonym:

nonconductive (not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound)

Derivation:

conduct (transmit or serve as the medium for transmission)

conductivity (the transmission of heat or electricity or sound)

 Context examples 

It is classified as conductive, sensory, or central.

(Hearing Loss, NCI Thesaurus)

A thermally conductive structure designed to carry heat away from an electronic device.

(Heat Sink Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually presents with conductive hearing loss.

(Middle Ear Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Hearing loss characterized by a combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss.

(Mixed Conductive and Sensorineural Hearing Loss, NCI Thesaurus)

And it gives faster charging capability, because it's highly conductive.

(Creating Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Made Possible with New Discovery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Conductive losses usually affect all frequencies to the same degree.

(Conductive Hearing Loss, NCI Thesaurus)

Highly conductive organic semiconductors, the researchers found, are governed by a new mechanism for spin transport that transforms them into excellent conductors of spin.

(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)

Issue associated with electrical current flowing through a gap between two conductive surfaces, typically resulting in a visible flash of light.

(Arcing Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

These winds extend from the planet's surface to over 1,860 miles (3,000 kilometers) deep, where the planet's interior begins changing from gas to highly conductive liquid metal.

(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)

Graphene is invisible to the unaided eye, yet harder than diamonds, stronger than steel, and more conductive than copper.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)