[-ING2.] That conducts: see the verb.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., V. (1682), 198. Our conducting Turks.
1710. Norris, Chr. Prud., i. 7. There is a conducting Rule, and a Regulating Rule.
1796–7. Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813), 87. The conducting officers having placed themselves on that flank.
1800. trans. Lagrange’s Chem., I. 274. A good earthen retort, having adapted to it a conducting tube.
b. Physics. Having the power of conducting heat, etc.; of or pertaining to conduction: esp. used of conductors of electricity.
1737. Desaguliers, in Phil. Trans., XLI. 194. A Conducting String of Cat-gut receiv’d the Electricity.
1833. N. Arnott, Physics (ed. 5), II. 110. Its little capacity for heat, and ready conducting power.
1885. Watson & Burbury, Math. Th. Electr. & Magn., I. 93. A charge of electricity upon a hollow conducting shell causes no electrification on its inner surface.
