conduit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a passage, such as a pipe or tunnel, through which water or electric wires can pass

   The computers were connected through a system of conduits.

2. 2
   noun

   A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.

   This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.

Etymology

From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct.