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Definition of Conduits
1. conduit [n] - See also: conduit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conduits
Literary usage of Conduits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
"Various ways of providing electrical conduits.—The need for conduits or ...
For these reasons electrical conduits or subways have become a necessity in the ..."
2. Public Water-supplies: Requirements, Resources, and the Construction of Works by Frederick Eugene Turneaure, Harry Luman Russell, Daniel Webster Mead (1908)
"conduits are divided into two general classes: (i) those in which the ...
conduits of the first class must obviously be constructed with a slope equal to ..."
3. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow, Henry Morley (1890)
"Edward Jackman, one of the sheriffs, 1564, gave toward the conduits one hundred
pounds. ... Thus much for the conduits of fresh water to this city. ..."
4. Treatise on Hydraulics by Mansfield Merriman, Thaddeus Merriman (1916)
"conduits may be either open, as in the case of troughs, or closed, as in sewers and
... Ditches and canals are conduits in earth without artificial lining. ..."
5. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1903)
"When many conductors have to be carried in the same street, and on the same side
of it, it is of great advantage to have several conduits for the sake of ..."
6. A Treatise on Electric Law: Comprising the Law Governing All Electric by Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce (1907)
"Title to conduits and manholes — Recovery by company for injury to 436a. manhole.
... Right of electrical company to use of conduits owned by municipality. ..."
7. The Financial History of Baltimore by Jacob Harry Hollander (1899)
"revenues were collected by the market clerks, and paid in quarterly account to
the Comptroller.1 Wire conduits. A provision of the franchise granted the ..."
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