Conductor or conduction may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Conductor (music), a person who leads a musical ensemble
  • Conductor (album), by The Comas, 2004
  • Conductor Williams (Denzel Williams, born 1982), American music producer
  • Conduction, the musical improvisation method of Butch Morris
  • The Conductor (film), by Pavel Lungin, Russia, 2012
  • The Orchestra Conductor, or The Conductor, a 1980 Polish drama film
  • Mr. Conductor, a character in Shining Time Station

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Bone conduction, the conduction of sound to the inner ear
  • Conduction aphasia, an acquired language disorder
  • Part of the palpal bulb of male spiders

Mathematics

  • Conductor (ring theory)
  • Conductor of an abelian variety
  • Conductor of a Dirichlet character
  • Conductor (class field theory)
  • Artin conductor, of a Galois group
  • Conductor of a Numerical semigroup

Physics

  • Electrical conductor
  • Fast-ion conductor
  • Mixed conductor, ionic and electronic
  • Cardiac conduction system, of the heart
  • Thermal conduction

Transportation

  • Bus conductor
  • Conductor (train crew)

Other uses

  • Conductor (architecture), a downspout
  • Conductor (company), an American enterprise software provider
  • Conductor (military appointment), an appointment held by selected warrant officers in the British Army
  • Conductor (software), a microservice and workflow orchestration software platform
  • Conductor (underground railroad), a guide on the secret routes for fugitive slaves in the United States
  • Conductor, a term in conductive education

See also

  • Conducător, title used officially by Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu during World War II
  • Electrical resistivity and conductivity
  • Electrical resistance and conductance
  • Thermal conductivity and resistivity