Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of insulating or the state of being insulated.
- n. A material or substance used in insulating: soundproof cork insulation; a layer of trapped air that serves as insulation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of insulating or detaching, or the state of being detached, from other objects.
- n. In electricity and thermotics, that state in which the communication of electricity or heat to other bodies is prevented by the interposition of a non-conductor; also, the material or substance which insulates. See insulate and insulator.
- n. The act of setting free from combination, as a chemical body; isolation.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
- n. Any of a variety of materials designed to reduce the flow of heat, either from or into a building.
- n. engineering The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound
- n. engineering The state of a body so separated.
- n. electrical a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
- n. (Elec. & Thermotics) 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.
- n. The material or substance used to insulate from either electrical or thermal conduction.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
- n. the state of being isolated or detached
- n. a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity
Etymologies
- From insulate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So, for a 29% increase in insulation you get an 11% return in efficiancy.”
“You would think that is a 29% increase in insulation value.”
“In Reply To heaters are totally unnecessary, i have found, and anyone that blows money on nob type insulation is a fool. yes, there is a forum here that hands out only yellow cards [not red] and it is rare to be thrown out of the game.”
“| Private Reply heaters are totally unnecessary, i have found, and anyone that blows money on nob type insulation is a fool.”
“In Chiapas, we do not need what you refer to as "nob type insulation" as what we use there for insulation is three foot thick adobe walls that take up more space than your entire living room in that tarpaper shack of yours in Crapola but we must admit that we need propane heaters as we lack your incessant hot air bloviating forth to heat our maison you Alberta clodhopper.”
“| Private Reply heaters are totally unnecessary, i have found, and anyone that blows money on nob type insulation is a fool. yes, there is a forum here that hands out only yellow cards [not red] and it is rare to be thrown out of the game.”
“I don't like blown in insulation, and that seems to be the only companies I can find.”
“I am not saying we have to wrap you up in insulation and store you inside a box like a precious artifact; the fact is that with only seven functioning members of the team, we can't afford to have anyone who isn't kept busy most of the time.”
“N = 4294738595&Ns = HarvestDate%7c1 see page 5-66 in Volume I which states "It was determined that much of the severe [TPS] damage was caused by .. debris .. from portions of the SOFI insulation from the ET”
“So we're definitely going to get some short-term insulation from this, but as you know, you can delay the impact of the exchange rates, you can't actually eliminate it.”
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