The word duct is derived from the Latin word for ''led/leading''. It may refer to: * Duct (anatomy), various ducts in anatomy and physiology ** Tear duct, which carry tears to the eyes *

Duct (HVAC) Ducts are conduits or passages used in HVAC, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) to deliver and remove air. The needed airflows include, for example, ''supply air'', ''return air'', and ''exhaust air''. Ducts commonly also deliver ...

, for transfer of air between spaces in a structure * Duct tape, a kind of adhesive tape *

Ducted fan In aeronautics, a ducted fan is a thrust-generating mechanical fan or Propeller (aeronautics), propeller mounted within a cylindrical wiktionary:duct, duct or shroud. Other terms include ducted propeller or shrouded propeller. When used in vertic ...

, motor for aircraft * Electrical bus duct, a metal enclosure for busbars * Duct (industrial exhaust), industrial exhaust duct system designed for low pressure-pneumatic convey of gas, fumes, dusts, shavings, and other pollutants from works space to atmosphere after cleaning and removal of contaminants * Atmospheric duct, a horizontal layer in the lower atmosphere in which the vertical refractive index gradients are such that radio signals (a) are guided or ducted, (b) tend to follow the curvature of the Earth, and (c) experience less attenuation in the ducts than they would if the ducts were not present ** Tropospheric ducting, a type of radio propagation in the troposphere that allows signals to travel unusually long distances ** Earth–ionosphere waveguide, a type of atmospheric duct * Surface duct, a sound propagation phenomenon at sea * Duct Publishing, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content * Dispatchable Unit Control Table (DUCT) in

z/Architecture z/Architecture, initially and briefly called ESA Modal Extensions (ESAME), is IBM's 64-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architecture, implemented by its mainframe computers. IBM introduced its first z/Architecture ...

* Flexible Ducting

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