Insulator
['ɪnsjʊleɪtə] or ['ɪnsəletɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity.
Editor: Monica--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, insulates.
(n.) The substance or body that insulates; a nonconductor.
Inputed by Claude
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. (Physics.) Non-conductor.
Inputed by Gracie
Examples
- The wire is usually covered with silk, cotton, gutta percha or some other insulator, to prevent the current from leaping across, and compel it to travel through the whole length of the wire. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Substances which, like an air gap, interfere with the flow of electricity are called non-conductors, or, more commonly, insulators. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In 1883 no such fittings as fixture insulators were known. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The little glass-knob insulators made seductive targets for ignorant sportsmen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The farthest western reach of the telegraph lines in 1847 was Pittsburg, with three-ply iron wire mounted on square glass insulators with a little wooden pentroof for protection. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The insulators were bottles set on nails driven into trees and short poles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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