Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not conducting; not transmitting: thus, with respect to electricity, wax is a non-conducting substance.
Wiktionary
- adj. That does not conduct (electricity or heat).
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not conducting; nonconductive; not transmitting a fluid or force; -- used especially of electric current.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound
- adj. not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound
Etymologies
- non- + conducting (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If possible, stand on something dry and nonconducting, such as a mat or folded newspapers.”
“Electrical wires can also produce heat and fire if they are left bare—without nonconducting insulation—near flammable material, such as wood or sawdust.”
“In this type of fire, therefore, the extinguishing agent should be nonconducting.”
“Made of tough nonmetallic and nonconducting ceramic, the shocker fired tiny charged pellets to a distance of twenty meters.”
“Nerves that must stimulate organs requiring rapid response—for example, those that might signal the need to remove a finger from a hot surface, or power a leg muscle to run from a hungry lion—are electrically insulated by a fatty molecular layer, a nonconducting lipid sheath known as myelin.”
“These plates are then submitted to pressure, and placed together, with strips of nonconducting material interposed between them, in a suitable vessel containing a bath of acidulated water.”
“It may however be preserved for some hours or even days before it will completely evaporate, by simply placing it in an open vessel surrounded by a nonconducting material.”
“The air is withdrawn from the space between the two walls, thus making it nonconducting.”
“Two light woolen garments are warmer than one heavy one, as there is between them a layer of nonconducting air.”
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
“The surface of the stream soon cools and blackens, and the hard crust of nonconducting rock may grow thick and firm enough to form a tunnel, within which the fluid lava may flow far before it loses its heat to any marked degree.”
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