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)
• Electrical conduit, a protective cover for cables
• 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 outside a volcano by molten magma and by which magma travels to the surface
• 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 evergreen special purpose vehicle or structured investment vehicle used to fund the purchase of assets through the issuance of commercial paper

[edit] Other uses

• Conduit current collection
• Conduit (comics), a comics villain
• CONduit (convention), a sci-fi convention
• Conduit Road, a road in Hong Kong and Sheffield, England
• Conduit (software), a computer program
• Conduit (Web site), an online marketing platform
• The Conduit, a video game for the Wii console
• "Conduit (The X-Files episode)", the fourth episode of the first season of The X-Files
• White Conduit Club, a cricket club
• Conduit, a Customer Services employment building in East Point Business Park in Dublin, Ireland
• The Conduit, internal publication of the Durban University of Technology
• Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit, an investment vehicle that issues securities based on pools of mortgages it holds in trust
• Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit, a proposed fund financed by private banks to support structured investment vehicles
• A gap junction is a intracellular conduit in molecular cell biology.

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