CONDUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conduit mean? 

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

1. a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDUIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the computers were connected through a system of conduits

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

passage (a way through or along which someone or something may pass)

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

aqueduct (a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley)

duct (an enclosed conduit for a fluid)

flue (a conduit to carry off smoke)

millrace; millrun (a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel)

penstock; sluice; sluiceway (conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate)

spill; spillway; wasteweir (a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction)

tube; tubing (conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases)

waterspout (a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof))

 Context examples 

A device made with thin glass fibers as a conduit for transmission of light.

(Fiberoptic Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

About 90 per cent of the plastics that filter into the oceans come from just 10 of the world’s rivers which serve as conduits from urban areas.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)

The arteries that arise at the junction of the proximal and mid-right coronary artery conduit segments.

(Acute Marginal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

This nanoscale conduit confines the translocation of biomolecules.

(Nanochannel, NCI Thesaurus)

An independent acquisition scheme, i.e., a route or conduit through which flows data consisting of one particular measurement using one particular parameter.

(Channel, NCI Thesaurus)

However, more subtle variations across the batholith show that the magma formed by the melting of multiple rock sources that rose through several conduits.

(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)

Nanoscale structures or conduits comprised of silica or polymers that are small enough for individual biomolecules to pass through them.

(Nanochannel, NCI Thesaurus)