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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conductivity \Con'duc*tiv"i*ty\ (k[o^]n'd[u^]k*t[i^]v"[i^]*t[y^]), noun The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve.
{Thermal conductivity} (Physics), the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of a plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one degree.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
conductivity
noun: the transmission of heat or electricity or sound [syn: {conduction}]
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