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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 Date: 1751 a substance that conducts heat, electricity, or sound only in very small degree

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nonconductor Non`con*duct"or, n. (Physics) A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.