verb
definition
To separate, detach, or isolate.
definition
To separate a body or material from others, e.g. by non-conductors to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, etc.
example
Ceramic can be used to insulate power lines.
adjective
definition
That insulates.
Examples of insulating in a Sentence
This was constructed of a shallow box placed in a vertical position, with metallic front and back and insulating sides.
In the Hospitalier ondograph, 1 a synchronous electric motor driven in step with the periodic current in the circuit being tested drives a cylinder of insulating material having a metallic slip let into its edge.
In the earliest the conductor was represented by long metal wires, supported by silk or other insulating material, and left to pick up the air's potential.
Thomson (Lord Kelvin) at a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1854, because its greater flexibility renders it less likely to damage the insulating envelope during the manipulation of the cable.
Ebonite takes a fine polish, and is valuable to the electrician on account of its insulating properties, and to the chemist and photographer because vessels made of it are unaffected by most chemical reagents.
In conjunction with Josiah Latimer Clark, with whom he entered into partnership in 1861, he invented improved methods of insulating submarine cables, and a paper on electrical standards read by them before the British Association in the same year led to the establishment of the British Association committee on that subject, whose work formed the foundations of the system still in use.
Cavendish proved it by enclosing a metal sphere in two hemispheres of thin metal held on insulating supports.
The acid process goes on much faster, because in it the heat insulating layer of slag is much thinner.
In the form of standard coil recommended by the Berlin Reichsanstalt the coil is immersed in an insulating oil which is kept stirred by means of a small electric motor during the time of making the measurement.
Granulated cork has practically the same insulating properties as silicate cotton, and the same thicknesses may be used.
For lager-beer cellars and fermenting rooms, for bacon-curing cellars, and for similar purposes, brick walls with single or double air spaces are used, and sometimes a space filled with silicate cotton or other insulating material.
The microphonic portion of the transmitter is contained in a thin cylindrical box or case of brass A, the inner curved surface of which is covered with an insulating layer of paper.
For various purposes a manufactured material known as "micanite" or "micanite cloth" is much used; this consists of small sheets of mica cemented with shellac or other insulating cement on cloth or paper.
Nansen perfected the instrument, adapting it not only for enclosing a portion of water at any desired depth, but by a series of concentric divisions insulating in the central compartment water at the temperature it had at the moment of collection.
For the purpose of measuring resistances up to a few thousand ohms, the most convenient appliance is a Wheatstone's Bridge (q.v), but when the resistance of the conductor to be measured is several hundred thousand ohms, or if it is the resistance of a so-called insulator, such as the insulating covering of the copper wires employed for distributing electric current in houses and buildings for electric lighting, then the ohmmeter is more convenient.
To prevent leakage over the surface of the insulating covering of the wire which projects above the surface of the water, it is necessary to employ a " guard wire P, which consists of a piece of fine copper wire, twisted round the extremity of the insulated wire and connected to the battery.
It was also necessary to give the fine charcoal a thin coating of calcium oxide by soaking it in lime-water, for the temperature was so high that unless it was thus protected it was gradually converted into graphite, losing its insulating power and diffusing the current through the lining and walls of the furnace.
The axis N 0 passes through the brass piece M, which stands on an insulating pillar of glass, and supports the plates A and C. At one extremity of this axis is the ball D, and the other is connected with a rod of glass, N P, upon which is fixed the handle L, and also the piece G H, which is separately insulated.
Tudsbury that if an influence machine is enclosed in a metallic chamber containing compressed air, or better, carbon dioxide, the insulating properties of compressed gases enable a greatly improved effect to be obtained owing to the diminution of the leakage across the plates and from the supports.
The plates are placed in a vessel full of insulating oil which prevents the glow or brush discharge taking place over their edges.
For the purpose of a standard condenser a number of concentric metal tubes may be arranged on an insulating stand, alternate tubes being connected together.
In examining the dissipation which takes place along imperfectly insulating substances, he found that a thread of gum-lac was the most perfect of all insulators; that it insulated ten times as well as a dry silk thread; and that a silk thread covered with fine sealing-wax insulated as powerfully as gum-lac when it had four times its length.
In 1876, Paul Jablochkov (1847-1894), a Russian officer, passing through Paris, invented his famous electric candle, consisting of two rods of carbon placed side by side and separated from one another by an insulating material.
In the point-by-point method the shaft of an alternator, or an alternating current motor driven in step with it, is furnished with an insulating disk having a metallic slip inserted in its edge.
The conductive particles (nano or micro) may be metallic, coated insulating particles or based intrinsically conductive particles (nano or micro) may be metallic, coated insulating particles or based intrinsically conductive polymers.
Reduce heat losses by fitting a hot water tank jacket, insulating hot water pipes and consider installing double-glazing.
A thermos or insulating flask allows hot drinks to be carried.
At the moment there are no facilities in the United Kingdom that are capable of removing such substances from the insulating foam of fridges.
They are white, insulating solids with negligible small electronic conductivities and the bonding is mainly ionic.
Hot water tank - fit an insulating jacket to your hot water cylinder.
The Technical Service can calculate U-values for external roofs and walls to assist in selecting Knauf insulating laminates to meet thermal insulation targets.
Between the outer shell and the insulating layers is a 100% waterproof, breathable, seamless inner protective glove.
The front sub frame is attached to the car by insulating rubber mountings.
At the site of a lesion, a nerve insulating material, called myelin, is lost.
Often many axons remain intact but are rendered useless by loss of their insulating myelin.
Less commonly the problem lies in the insulating myelin sheath.
With this technique, a metallic bridge on an insulating substrate is carefully stretched by mechanical bending.
Industrial strength insulating tape can be used to secure lengths of cable off the floor behind appliances.
Over insulating can cause the heat tape itself to overheat, even with a properly installed thermostat.
Other tips include appointing a water monitor, sorting out dripping taps and insulating water pipes.
This surface is divided into two parallel halves by a short insulating space on which the arm normally rests, so that two separate conducting surfaces are provided, with either one of which the arm will make contact in its excursions in one direction or the other from the central position, the direction and duration of contact being governed by the motion of the suspended coil.
The inner platinum ends DD of the wire may be sealed into the glass insulating tubes, but reliance should not be placed upon these sealings.
Volta then proved that all metals could be arranged in an electromotive 1 Modern researches have shown that the loss of charge is in fact dependent upon the ionization of the air, and that, provided the atmospheric moisture is prevented from condensing on the insulating supports, water vapour in the air does not per se bestow on it conductance for electricity.
Wood is good at both insulating and letting the roof breathe during the warmer months, but it is not nearly as durable as the other two materials.
It mimics the lightness and spring of down, as well as down's insulating characteristics.
Its insulating properties make it warm and inviting in cold weather.
Insulating your home can help to reduce the amount of energy that is required to heat or cool your home.
In addition to insulating your home, you should also check windows for drafts and fit draft excluders where required.
By insulating your home thoroughly, you'll prevent heat loss in the winter and heat gain the summer.
Just as with straw bale homes, straw bale cold frames use the mass of the insulating straw walls to buffer the temperature difference between outside and inside.