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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A measure of a material's ability to conduct electric charge; the reciprocal of the resistance.
- noun Thermal conductance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity: the conducting power of a given mass of specified material of specified shape and connections.
- noun in alternating-current circuits, the energy component of admittance, defined as the ratio of the energy current divided by the electromotive force. See
admittance . 6.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of
resistance . A suggested unit is themho , the reciprocal of the ohm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics A
measure of theability of a body toconduct electricity ; thereciprocal of itsresistance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance
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Examples
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A lead attached to her finger measures "skin conductance," the amount of perspiration on the skin, another physiological sign of stress.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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A lead attached to her finger measures "skin conductance," the amount of perspiration on the skin, another physiological sign of stress.
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Healing Rhythms comes with the Iom biofeedback unit, which measures your skin conductance and heart rate variability.
Healing Rhythms Gathers the Wisdom of Chopra, Ornish, and Weil 2007
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In this case the pre-recorded data were of things like the spontaneous fluctuations of human skin conductance and heart rate and gerbil's use of an exercise wheel.
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Their skin conductance patterns spike, the hairs on their arms rise, their pulse quickens, and their breathing becomes shallow.
Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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When electrodermal wires are placed on people's arms and fingertips to study their skin conductance patterns and the subjects then hear a few obscenities spoken clearly and firmly, participants show signs of instant arousal.
Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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These measure skin conductance, which is known to rise during stress or discomfort.
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The permeability to current of a conductor is called conductance
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I/U is the conductance of the load; the total conductance or equivalent conductance, which is to be designated Gequ, is written as
3. Electric Circuits 1991
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On the macroscopic scale, the ability to carry current, called conductance, varies linearly as a function of the length and cross-sectional area of the wire.
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