Conductor vs Conductorial - What's the difference?
conductor | conductorial |
One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
* Dryden
(music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
A person who takes tickets on public transportation.
Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
(mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
* 1988 , F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
(architecture) A leader.
Characteristic of a conductor (especially one who directs an orchestra)
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As a noun conductor
is one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.As an adjective conductorial is
characteristic of a conductor (especially one who directs an orchestra).conductor
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Alternative forms
* conductour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
- train conductor'''; tram '''conductor
- If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
Antonyms
* non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)Derived terms
* lightning conductorSee also
* ticket inspector ----conductorial
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Adjective
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