conductance
Noun
Meaning
a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance
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Actual measurements of the Hall conductance have been found to be integer or fractional multiples of e 2 /h to nearly one part in a billion.
Emotional sweating across the body: Comparing 16 different skin conductance measurement locations.
It is caused by the presence of mutations in both copies of the gene for the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein.
Conductance For general scientific use, thermal conductance is the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through a plate of particular area and thickness when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one kelvin.
For a given thickness of a material, that particular construction's thermal resistance and the reciprocal property, thermal conductance, can be calculated.
For vacuum tubes, transconductance or mutual conductance (gm) is defined as the change in the plate(anode)/cathode current divided by the corresponding change in the grid/cathode voltage, with a constant plate(anode)/cathode voltage.