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語源

Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.

発音

• IPA: /kənˈdʌktɚ/
• ハイフネーション: con‧duc‧tor

名詞

conductor (plural conductors)

1. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
   • 1687, [John Dryden], “The Third Part”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 96:

     […] Zeal, the blind conductor of the will;

2. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
3. (transport) A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.

   train conductor

   tram conductor

   • 2022 April 6, “Network News: Booze ban continues as part of move to prioritise women's safety”, in RAIL, number 954, page 6:

     " […] And one of the things that makes me feel safe is when I see the conductor."

4. (physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound.

   Antonyms: dielectric, nonconductor, insulator

   Coordinate term: semiconductor

   • 1952, Safety Maintenance:

     Falling conductors may come in contact with grounded objects or puddles of water.

   • 1997, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Fourth International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation & Management, 11-13 November 1997, Institution of Electrical Engineers:

     The failure of HIF detection leads to potential hazard to human beings and potential fire. HIFS are usually caused by falling conductors coming into contact with a surface having poor conductivity.

5. (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
   • 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory:

     If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.

6. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
7. (architecture) A leader.

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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kɔnˈdʊk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [konˈduk.tor]

名詞

conductor m (genitive conductōris, feminine conductrīx); third declension

1. employer, entrepreneur
2. contractor
3. (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

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参照

• “conductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "conductor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “conductor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.