Note 1 to entry: Conducive conditions refer to temperature, magnetic field strength, strain and electric current density.

Note 2 to entry: In French, one adjective "supraconducteur" is used for both English terms "superconducting" and "superconductive".

Note 3 to entry: The word “superconductive” is also used to describe a device consisting of one or more components that are superconductive.

Note 4 to entry: This entry was numbered 815-10-04 in IEC 60050-815:2015.