conducible
English
Etymology
From Latin condūcibilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈdjuːsɪbəl/, /kənˈduːsɪbəl/
Adjective
conducible (comparative more conducible, superlative most conducible)
- (obsolete) conducive; tending; contributing
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- To both , the medium , which is the most propitious and conducible , is air , for glass or water , &c. are not comparable
- (mathematics) Able to be decomposed into a direct sum of ideals, such that each ideal corresponds to a certain structure or property.
- 2011, Hans Freudenthal, H. de Vries, Linear Lie Groups, page 185:
- If G (G) is conducible, then R splits directly into a sum of linear subspaces on which G(G) acts irreducibly.
Derived terms
References
- “conducible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.