Definition of "conduction"

conduction

/kənˈdʌkʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural conductions
1. (physics) The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
2. The act of leading or guiding.
  Quotations
  Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, who aſſiſted the Israelites in their conduction through the Wildernes of Pharan.
  1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], (please specify |book=1 to 5)
3. (obsolete) The act of training up.
  Quotations
  every man has his beginning and conduction
  c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)