What is the difference between dielectric and conductor?
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(physics) An electrically insulating or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field.
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.
Conductor is a related term of dielectric.
As nouns the difference between dielectric and conductor
is that dielectric is an electrically insulating or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field while conductor is one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.As an adjective dielectric
is (electrically) insulating.dielectric
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(wikipedia dielectric)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* insulatorDerived terms
* dielectric constant * dielectricityconductor
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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.