How to Use conductance in a Sentence

conductance

noun
  • It was then stabbed with virtual weapons while skin conductance was measured.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2012
  • At the same time, clearing the lithium out of a device changes the conductance of all its neighbors.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
  • The amount of electricity coming off our skin (called skin conductance) might change.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Worse still, those conductance values might change with temperature.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
  • The glasses also took data on heart rates and skin conductance, which is how well the skin conducts electricity.
    — Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Mobbs measured the skin conductance of his players by rigging them up to a device similar to a lie detector.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
  • Molecular motion also can’t achieve as large a difference in thermal conductance between the on state and the off state.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2023
  • As the magnetic field changes, the material’s conductance jumps from value to value.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2016
  • Researchers then measured skin conductance, or the electrical activity of the sweat glands, of the subjects.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Researchers are trying to cause large single grains of copper to form across the boundary to improve conductance and stability.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Dormio use sensors on an electronic glove to measure muscle tone, heart rate, and skin conductance to detect the shift from hypnagogia and actual sleep.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Responses were measured via skin conductance and activation of their facial muscles.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • One chart in the paper showed dots tracing a plateau at exactly the electrical conductance value that theory predicted.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • When the sensor picked up, for example, greater skin conductance—that is, the degree to which the skin can transmit an electric current—that was a sign that the body was more aroused and ready for fight or flight.
    — Stephen MacKnik, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2022
  • It’s believed that changes in our skin conductance is a reflection of the level to which our autonomous nervous system is activated.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The Hall conductance was experimentally measured (and averaged) over many cycles of the pump.
    — Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Other physiological processes, such as our breathing rate and skin conductance levels, may also line up with those of other people.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • If every electron that attempted to hop into the superconductor succeeds, the conductance would double.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 9 July 2019
  • The sheath is the source of the conductance, Meysman and colleagues reported last year in Nature Communications.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Polygraphs are meant to do better by measuring a variety of biological signs (such as skin conductance and pulse) that supposedly track with lying.
    — Theodor Schaarschmidt, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
  • However, when Ramachandran showed David photos of family members and strangers, his skin conductance remained at the same level for both.
    — Meeri Kim, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Their acrophobia was reduced, according to both questionnaires and skin-conductance measurements.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2011
  • Instead, in most analog AI schemes, the weights are stored in one of several types of nonvolatile memory as a conductance value (the resistances above).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
  • Sufficiently high levels of lithium result in the transfer of an electron to molybdenum (which in turn alters the structure of the material) and a boost of its conductance.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Semiconductors, used in computer circuitry and much more, use properties of both conductance and resistance to create logical gates that direct electrons.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2020
  • This enabled them to directly detect the piezoelectricity induced by friction by measuring the A/C conductance.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In that scheme, the weights are encoded as conductance values in a resistive memory element (RRAM).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Skin conductance is often used as an empirical measure of arousal, detecting changes in electrical conductivity as the body produces sweat in response to exciting stimuli.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2016
  • One provided some validation for the condition by tracking heightened levels of skin conductance (a common measure of bodily arousal) when participants heard sounds that triggered them.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2019
  • It’s noted that highly sensitive people may have stronger physiological responses to stimuli, including heart rate changes and skin conductance shifts when exposed to new experiences.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026

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