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Definition of Conducting

1. Noun. The way of administering a business.

2. Noun. The direction of an orchestra or choir. "He does not use a baton for conducting"

Definition of Conducting

1. Verb. (present participle of conduct) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conducting

1. conduct [v] - See also: conduct

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conducting

conduct conduct disorder conductance conductance unit conductances conductant conductase conducted conductest conducteth

conducti conductibility conductible conductimetric conductimetry conducting conducting airway conducting system of heart conducting wire conduction

conduction anaesthesia conduction analgesia conduction anesthesia conduction aphasia conduction band conduction bands conduction block conduction deafness conductions conductitious

Literary usage of Conducting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"We have proved in Art. 654, that a closed sheet of perfectly conducting matter ... It is obvious that if other conducting shells are placed within the first ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1909)
"INFINITE Conducting PLANE AND PARALLEL CYLINDER. Linear Resistance.—Let a uniform conducting cylinder of radius FIG. i. Section of a conducting cylinder DEF ..."

3. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1875)
"Experiments were made on thirty-five different solutions of the chlorides of the alkalies and alkaline earths, which showed the dependence of the conducting ..."

4. Transactions by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1900)
"Gentlemen: The undersigned Committee, to which was submitted the revision of the Society Code of 1885, relative to a standard method of conducting ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"The Bending of Electric Waves round a Conducting Obstacle: Amended ... my analysis* of the problem of bending of electric waves round a conducting obstacle, ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"When a conducting powder like graphite is mixed with a non-conducting refractory powder ... When the percentage of the conducting powder is low a mechanical ..."

7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"He continued to preach in Hanley, however, but in 1883, after conducting evangelistic ... Early in 1889 he visited the United States, conducting services in ..."

8. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"were checked by exchanging the conducting wires and lamps. ... Siemens having submitted for trial with their machines a conducting cable of ..."

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