Conduit
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A conduit is a general term for a means of conveying something from one location to another or between persons.
Examples of conduits:
- Waterways (such as rivers and canals)
- Channels for carrying water or other fluids (such as pipes and aqueducts)
- A protective cover for electrical wiring
- An air duct used for heating, ventilating and air-conditioning purposes
- Someone who conveys information, whether publicly (such as a prophet or spokesman) or in secret (such as a mole or an informant)
- Something that conveys information (such as television, a computer network or a web site)
- A magma conduit, a channel created inside a volcano by molten magma and by which magma travels to the surface
- The Silk Road was a conduit between the East and the West
- Another name for the lower part of a plant embryo (suspensor) through which nutrients are conducted
- An entity used to raise funds and then pass them on to related companies.
[edit] Proper names
- Conduit (comics), a comics villain
- Conduit Road, a road in Hong Kong
- White Conduit Club, a cricket club
- CONduit (convention), a sci-fi convention
- "Conduit (The X-Files episode)", the fourth episode of the first season of The X-Files
