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Meanings of insulator in anglès
Substance that does not transmit certain forms of energy, such as heat (thermal insulator), sound (acoustic insulator) or electricity (electrical insulator)
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Material whose internal electric charges do not flow freely, and which therefore does not conduct an electric current.
Related terms
A material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity.
Usage of insulator in anglès
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A block of wood is used as an insulator under the jar.
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The wood is used for posts, cross-ties, wagon hubs, and insulator pins.
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Which is to say, it's an insulator good enough for spacecraft.
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Those won't work because the plastic will act as an insulator.
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They race upward until they reach the insulator, which they cannot flow through.
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The sock serves as a protective insulator to hold the heat.
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It is used as an insulator in the motor industry and has medical applications.
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That yarn traps a lot of air which makes it a really good insulator.
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The action of its particles differs from those of an insulator only in degree.
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The snow, trapping minuscule air pockets between its frozen crystals, was a good insulator.
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As Thermos flasks demonstrate, a vacuum is a great insulator.
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The Cornell insulator was chosen And now the work went forward with great rapidity.
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The spatial evolution of the insulator-to-metal transition is clearly resolved.
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In the case of shell-lac, therefore, space is an insulator.
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CTCF, the most characterized insulator-binding protein, has been implicated as a key genome organizer.
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The light-induced electron interactions enhance the charge-carrier itinerancy, leading to a switchable metal-to-insulator transition.
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Translations for insulator
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Insulator through the time
Insulator across language varieties
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