Conductor

Conductor or conduction may refer to:

Music

Conductor (music), a person who leads a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra.
Conductor (album), an album by indie rock band The Comas
Conduction, a type of structured free improvisation in music notably practiced by Butch Morris

Conductor (ring theory), an ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
Conductor of an abelian variety, a description of its bad reduction
Conductor of a Dirichlet character, the natural (smallest) modulus for a character
Conductor (class field theory), a modulus describing the ramification in an abelian extension of local or global fields
Artin conductor, an ideal or number associated to a representation of a Galois group of a local or global field
Conductor of a numerical semigroup, the smallest integer in the semigroup such that all subsequent integers are likewise in the semigroup

Electrical conductor, an object, substance or material allowing the flow of an electric charge
- Electrical resistivity and conductivity, the movement of charged particles through an electrical conductor
- Electrical resistance and conductance
- Fast ion conductor, a solid-state electrical conductor which conducts due to the movement of ions
- Mixed conductor, a solid state electrical conductor which conducts due to the movement of ions and electrons
- Electrical conduction system of the heart
Thermal conduction, the transfer of thermal energy through matter
- Thermal conductivity
Optical conductor, such as Optical fiber

Bus conductor, a person who checks passengers' tickets on a bus
Conductor (rail), a captain of the crew of a train
Conductor (underground railroad), an operative of the Underground Railroad of the antebellum-era United States which guided slaves to freedom
Mr. Conductor, a character in Shining Time Station and in Thomas and the Magic Railroad

Conductor (architecture), a traditional name for a downspout
Conductor (company), a provider of SEO services platforms based in New York City
Conductor (military appointment), a senior Warrant Officer appointment in the Royal Logistic Corps and its predecessors
Conductor (software), a microservice orchestration system developed by Netflix
The Conductor (film), a 2012 Russian film by Pavel Lungin
Part of the palpal bulb of male spiders
In biology, the conductor of a recessive gene or genetic carrier
The Orchestra Conductor aka The Conductor, a 1980 Polish film by Andrzej Wajda
A special education teacher who can applies the methods of conductive pedagogy

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