conductor
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conductor/kənˈdʌktə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person who conducts an orchestra or choir.
- 2 a person who collects fares on a bus.
■ N. Amer. a guard on a train.
- 3 Physics a material or device that conducts heat or electricity.
– derivatives
conductorship noun,
conductress noun.
conductorship noun,
conductress noun.
'conductor' also found in these Oxford entries:
bandmaster
- baton
- brush discharge
- charge carrier
- conductor rail
- copper
- corona
- eddy current
- electrode
- glow discharge
- inductance
- induction
- kapellmeister
- lightning conductor
- maestro
- non-conductor
- phono
- printed circuit
- psychopomp
- rail
- return
- shunt
- stick
- transmission line
- wand
