Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nonconductor of electricity, especially a substance with electrical conductivity of less than a millionth (10−6) of a siemens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Transmitting electric effects without conduction; nonconducting.
- noun A substance through or across which electric force is acting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor, separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics An
electrically insulating ornonconducting material considered for its electricsusceptibility , i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field. - adjective
insulating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Plasmocom team took a novel approach, developing what they called dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides (DLSPPW).
ACM TechNews 2009
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The team plans to mimic the longitudinal muscles with soft silicone rubber interspersed with a type of electroactive polymer EAP called a dielectric elastomer.
Scienstists Developing Robotic Octopus To Sovle Mysteries Of The Sea | Impact Lab 2009
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Ultimately the huge electrical stress exceeds the dielectric strength of the plastic, causing it to suddenly become conductive in a process called dielectric breakdown.
Lichtenberg Figures 2007
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Ultimately the huge electrical stress exceeds the dielectric strength of the plastic, causing it to suddenly become conductive in a process called dielectric breakdown.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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This phenomenon is called dielectric polarisation (Fig. 6.4.).
6. Electrical Field 1991
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When the electrical field acts on a non-conductor (also known as dielectric), the not freely movable electrons can be displaced only insignificantly in the direction of the positive charge.
6. Electrical Field 1991
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To be more accurate the specific inductive capacity of a dielectric is the ratio between the capacity of a condenser having that substance as a dielectric, to the capacity of the same condenser using dry air at zero degrees Centigrade and at a pressure of 14.7 pounds per square inch as the dielectric.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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A dielectric is a material that does not conduct electricity.
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A dielectric is a non-conducting substance, for example, an insulator: permittivity is a physical quantity that describes how an electric field affects, and is affected by a dielectric medium.
BakeryAndSnacks RSS 2009
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A dielectric is a non-conducting substance, for example, an insulator: permittivity is a physical quantity that describes how an electric field affects, and is affected by a dielectric medium.
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