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duct

Pronunciation: /dʌkt/

The English word “duct” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
  2. An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
  3. A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
  4. A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
  5. A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path.
  6. Guidance, direction.

verb

  1. To enclose in a duct.
  2. To channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.

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