Insulation
[ɪnsjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪnsə'leʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity.
(noun.) the state of being isolated or detached; 'the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel'.
Typed by Evangeline--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
(n.) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity or of heat; also, the state of a body so separated.
Inputed by Jarvis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Isolation, separation, disconnection, disengagement.
Editor: Marilyn
Examples
- For instance, in the very earliest days of electric lighting, the safe insulation of two bare wires fastened together was a serious problem that was solved by him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It presents, therefore, much less difficulty in the insulation of the wires than frictional electricity, whilst the rapidity of its transmission is for practical purposes equally efficient. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This perfection in insulation has greatly facilitated the establishment of telegraphic communication between England and the Continent. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The cost of the same number of wires at the present day would not be one-half that sum, with thicker wires and better insulation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Its strength has often been severely tested, as it has been sometime drawn up by ships' anchors, and considerably strained; but it has not been broken, and the insulation is almost perfect. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- All this becomes such an insulation against new ideas that when the Yankee goes abroad he takes his environment with him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- While the little dynamo was being built all the men in the laboratory wrote their names on the paper insulation that was wound upon the iron core of the armature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That mode of insulation was found very efficient. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The coherence will continue until the filings are mechanically shaken, when they will at once fall apart, as it were, insulation will be established, and the current will be broken. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The conductors having been drawn in, a preparation of asphaltum and linseed oil was forced into the piping to serve as insulation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It extinguishes electrical fires without injuring insulation or apparatus and without injury to the operator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The magnet wire was wound with rags for insulation, and pieces of spring brass were used for keys. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Copper for the circuits was more highly refined than ever before to secure the best conductivity, and purity was insisted on in every kind of insulation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The excellent insulation obtained by means of gutta percha covered wires has caused a return to the original plan of burying the wires in trenches in the ground. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- To employ currents of great power, the cable insulation would have been disintegrated and finally destroyed by heat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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