Duct

Definitions

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.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“heating and air-conditioning ducts”

“The three motors on each bogie are force⟳ ventilated from a blower mounted in the adjacent nose-end compartment of the superstructure, the air being led by ducts and flexible bellows connections to the air inlet at the commutator end⟳ of the motor.”

“[…] otherwise to express⟳ His care and love⟳ to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule⟳ and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own⟳ inclinations.”

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