Duct vs Conductor - What's the difference?
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A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs.
(obsolete) Guidance; direction.
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.
As nouns the difference between duct and conductor
is that duct is a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another while conductor is one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.As a verb duct
is to channel something through a duct (or series of ducts.duct
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(Wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)- heating and air-conditioning ducts
- otherwise to express His care and love to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own inclinations. — Henry Hammond.
Derived terms
* ductal * ducted * ducting * ductor * duct tape * Mullerian ducts * Wolffian ductsconductor
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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.