Conductor

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Conductor or conduction may refer to:

Physics

• Electrical conductor, an object, substance or material allowing the flow of an electric charge
• Electrical resistivity and conductivity, the movement of charged particles through an electrical conductor
• Fast ion conductor, a solid-state electrical conductor which conducts due to the movement of ions
• Mixed conductor, a solid state electrical conductor which conducts due to the movement of ions and electrons
• Conduction (heat), the transfer of thermal energy through matter
• Electrical conduction system of the heart

Mathematics

• Conductor (ring theory), an ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
• Conductor of an abelian variety, a description of its bad reduction
• Conductor of a Dirichlet character, the natural (smallest) modulus for a character
• Conductor (class field theory), a modulus describing the ramification in an abelian extension of local or global fields
• Artin conductor, an ideal or number associated to a representation of a Galois group of a local or global field
• In the theory of numerical semigroups, the conductor of a numerical semigroup (also called the Frobenius number of the semigroup) is the greatest integer not in the semigroup

Music

• Conductor (music), a person who leads a musical ensemble
  • The visible gestures of a conductor are known as conducting
• Conductor (album), an album by indie rock band The Comas
• Conduction, a type of structured free improvisation in music notably practiced by Butch Morris

Other

• Conductor (rail), a member of the crew of a train or tram
• Bus conductor, a person who checks tickets on a bus
• Conductor (architecture), a traditional name for a downspout
• Conductor (company), a provider of SEO services platforms based in New York City
• Conductor (Army), a senior Warrant Officer appointment in the Royal Logistic Corps and its predecessors
• Conductor (underground railroad), an operative of the Underground Railroad of the 19th century United States helping move slaves to freedom
• Mr. Conductor, a character in Shining Time Station and in Thomas and the Magic Railroad
• The conductor is part of the palpal bulb of male spiders