Conductor
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Conductor or conduction may refer to:
Human roles[edit]
- Conductor (music), a person who leads a musical ensemble.
- Conductor (rail), a captain of the crew of a train or tram
- Bus conductor, a person who checks passengers' tickets on a bus
- Conductor (military appointment), a senior Warrant Officer appointment in the Royal Logistic Corps and its predecessors
Biology[edit]
- Conductor of a recessive gene: Genetic carrier
Mathematics[edit]
- Conductor (ring theory), an ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
- Conductor of an abelian variety, a description of its bad reduction
- Conductor of a Dirichlet character, the natural (smallest) modulus for a character
- Conductor (class field theory), a modulus describing the ramification in an abelian extension of local or global fields
- Artin conductor, an ideal or number associated to a representation of a Galois group of a local or global field
- In the theory of numerical semigroups, the conductor of a numerical semigroup is the smallest integer in the semigroup such that all subsequent integers are likewise in the semigroup.
Physics[edit]
- Electrical conductor, an object, substance or material allowing the flow of an electric charge
- Electrical resistivity and conductivity, the movement of charged particles through an electrical conductor
- Electrical resistance and conductance
- Fast ion conductor, a solid-state electrical conductor which conducts due to the movement of ions
- Mixed conductor, a solid state electrical conductor which conducts due to the movement of ions and electrons
- Electrical conduction system of the heart
- Thermal conduction, the transfer of thermal energy through matter
Other uses[edit]
- Conductor (album), an album by indie rock band The Comas
- Conductor (architecture), a traditional name for a downspout
- Conductor (company), a provider of SEO services platforms based in New York City
- Conductor (underground railroad), an operative of the Underground Railroad of the 19th century United States helping move slaves to freedom
- The conductor, part of the palpal bulb of male spiders
- Mr. Conductor, a character in Shining Time Station and in Thomas and the Magic Railroad
- Conduction, a type of structured free improvisation in music notably practiced by Butch Morris
- The Conductor (film), a 2012 Russian film by Pavel Lungin
- The Orchestra Conductor aka The Conductor, a 1980 Polish film by Andrzej Wajda
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