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# conduction

«conduction» in Mova's school dictionary: **the way heat or electricity moves through a material from…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (conduction — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Conduction is the way heat or electricity moves through a material from one part to another, without the material itself moving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduction/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, conduction is one of three ways heat travels (with convection and radiation). Metals are good conductors: a metal spoon in hot soup gets hot by conduction. Wood and plastic are poor conductors (insulators), which is why pan handles are made of them. Phrases: heat conduction, by conduction, electrical conduction.

### examples

- A metal spoon gets hot by conduction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduction/#x1)
- Heat moves through the frying pan by conduction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduction/#x2)
- Conduction happens best in metals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduction/#x3)
- Wood is a poor conductor, so it slows conduction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduction/#x4)
- Electrical conduction lets current flow through copper wires. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduction/#x5)
- Conduction, convection and radiation are the three ways heat travels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduction/#x6)
- The pan handle is plastic to stop heat conduction to your hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduction/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. The verb is «conduct», the noun for a good material «conductor», a poor one «insulator». Do not confuse with «convection» (heat carried by moving liquid or gas). Myth: «cold flows into your hand» — really heat flows out of your hand into the cold metal.

### In the corpora

- [Conduction passes heat through touching materials, like a pan handle getting hot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/82-heat-and-temperature/5/)
- [Conduction is heat passing through a material or between things that touch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/82-heat-and-temperature/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conduction» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduction/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.