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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity [syn: insulator, dielectric, nonconductor] [ant: conductor]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: dia- + electric Date: 1837 a nonconductor of direct electric current • dielectric adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. Electr. --adj. insulating. --n. an insulating medium or substance. Phrases and idioms: dielectric constant permittivity. Derivatives: dielectrically adv. Etymology: DI-(3) + ELECTRIC = through which electricity is transmitted (without conduction)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dielectric Di`e*lec"tric, n. [Pref. dia- + electric.] (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.

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conductance, conduction, conductivity, conductor, electric conduction, gas conduction, insulator, ionic conduction, liquid conduction, metallic conduction, mho, nonconducting, nonconductive, nonconductor, photoconduction, semiconductor, superconductivity, superconductor





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