Other forms: conduits
A conduit is the tube that protects cables running through a building. Run it in conduit, metal conduit, conduit box.
Electrical regulations often require cables in walls to be protected, and conduit is what does it — steel or plastic tube through which wires are pulled. It also names any channel for water. Figuratively, a conduit is a person or route through which something passes: a conduit for information, a conduit for funds. Note that conduit and conduct are the same Latin word.
1nounconduitA tube that protects cables or carries water.
“The electrician ran the new cables through a plastic conduit along the garage wall.”
2nounrouteA person or route through which something passes.
“The bank acted as a conduit for money moving secretly between the two countries.”
conduit is a channel.
Old French conduit comes from Latin conductus, led together, from ducere, to lead. Conduct, duct and duke come from the same leading.
Latin
conductus
Old French
conduit
Middle English
conduyt
English, today
conduit
From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. a doublet of conduct.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA