conducting

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of conduct.

   The scientist spent the morning conducting experiments in the lab.

   Conducting a full investigation took the committee several weeks.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every use of conduct, and the object usually shows which one is meant: conducting an inquiry, conducting an orchestra, conducting heat, conducting oneself with dignity. Conducting a visitor to the door, in the sense of escorting, now sounds old-fashioned. The electrical use can also stand without an object (the wire stopped conducting). Placed before a noun, as in conducting infrastructure, it shades into the adjective meaning "conductive".

2. 2
   noun

   Able to transmit electric charge or heat through its material; equivalent in meaning to conductive.

   Like an open pipe that lets water flow freely, a conducting material lets electric charge move through it.

   The cable's conducting core carries current with very little loss.

   Engineers chose a highly conducting alloy for the connectors.

   Similarconductive

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