conductor

United States conductor and composer (1918-1990)

major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976)

popular United States conductor (1894-1979)

German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963)

United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951)

English composer and conductor (1905-1951)

Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911)

United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985)

United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935)

United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977)

United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970)

Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957)

German conductor (1876-1962)

German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)

English conductor (1869-1944)

United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986)

United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987)

United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)

United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)

a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)

the leader of a dance band

the conductor of a band

the leader of a marching band or drum corps

a female drum major

a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor

an impure form of copper having a black blistered surface

a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography

a silver of the degree of purity established for making legal silver coins

a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities

a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite

a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors

an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits

a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

a transmission line for high-frequency signals

a cable that provides an electrical connection for telephone or television or power stations

a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light

cable used to distribute electricity

a cable between a computer and a printer

a light insulated conductor for household use

an electric cord used to extend the length of a power cord

a cord to conduct power to an electrical appliance

a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit

a positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device

(electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector

a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device

the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes

the electrode that is the source of electrons in a cathode-ray tube or electron microscope; consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it

the electrode in a transistor where electrons originate

an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube

a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat

a metallic conductor that is attached to a high point and leads to the ground; protects the building from destruction by lightning

a conductor made with semiconducting material

electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

a semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction

a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons

a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes

a semiconductor device made of materials whose resistance varies as a function of temperature; can be used to compensate for temperature variation in other components of a circuit

a semiconductor device capable of amplification

a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves; used in radar

a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance

a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current

a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire

wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line

a length of wire that has a plug at each end; used to make connections at a patchboard

the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals