Conductor vs. Semiconductor

Conductornoun

One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.

Conductornoun

(music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.

Conductornoun

A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers

Conductornoun

Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.

Conductornoun

(mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed

Conductornoun

A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.

Conductornoun

(architecture) A leader.

Conductornoun

One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.

Conductornoun

One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.

Conductornoun

The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.

Conductornoun

A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.

Conductornoun

A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.

Conductornoun

Same as Leader.

Conductornoun

the person who leads a musical group

Conductornoun

a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.

Conductornoun

a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat

Conductornoun

the person who collects fares on a public conveyance

Semiconductornoun

(physics) A substance with electrical properties intermediate between a good conductor and a good insulator.

Semiconductornoun

a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities

Semiconductornoun

a conductor made with semiconducting material

Semiconductor

A semiconductor material has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as metallic copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way.