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Definition of Conducting wire
1. Noun. A metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance.
Generic synonyms: Conductor
Specialized synonyms: Filament, Booster Cable, Jumper Cable, Jumper Lead, Lead, Lead-in, Patchcord, Telegraph Line, Telegraph Wire, Telephone Line, Telephone Wire
Derivative terms: Wire, Wire
Definition of Conducting wire
1. Noun. Any metal wire used to carry electricity over a short or long distance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conducting Wire
Literary usage of Conducting wire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"As the length of the conducting wire can undoubtedly be made as great as in direct
telegraphy, I have called my instrument'telephone. ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1877)
"MAGNETISM OF conducting wire. conducting wire : at a is a screw for raising or
lowering the ... (302) Influence of a conducting wire in exciting Magnetism. ..."
3. Principles of Direct Current Machines by Alexander Suss Langsdorf (1915)
"Direction of the Force on a conducting wire.—Fleming's Left-hand Rule.—Equation (10)
shows that whenever a wire carrying a current lies in a magnetic field ..."
4. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Robert Jameson, Wernerian Natural History Society (1825)
"On the Laws of Electro-Magnetic Action, as depending on the Length and Dimensions
of the conducting Wire, and on the question, Whether Electrical Phenomena ..."
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