conductively
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- adverb
- /kənˈdʌktɪvli/
- Specialized
- Copper wire is often used in electrical circuits because it conducts electricity conductively.
Examples
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The refrigerator is recommended for conductively cooling the large superconducting magnets used in magnetic resonance imaging and for cooling electronics and lab samples.
Academic text (1996) -
A good insulator prevents electricity from passing conductively, keeping your home safe.
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These indirect techniques involved removing heat conductively from a chip or chip package, followed by convection to a liquid.
Academic text (2011) -
Without gravity, we would have to consider the energy conductively absorbed into the atmosphere as causing the atmosphere to depart the planet, thus not reaching equilibrium until the solid body was again in a vacuum, and thus violating the assumed conditions.
Blog text (18) -
Heat travels conductively through metals, making them excellent conductors.
Surface Forms
Morphology
conductively = conductive (transparent) = conduct + ive + ly
Formed regularly by adding -ly to the adjective 'conductive', yielding the adverbial meaning 'in a conductive manner'.
Etymology
The word conductively comes from Latin parts con- ('together') and ducere ('to lead'), and it is related to the word conductor. To 'conduct' is to 'lead' or carry something like heat or electricity through a material, so conductively means in a way that lets heat or electricity pass through easily.