Dielectric

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A nonconductor of electricity, especially a substance with electrical conductivity of less than a millionth (10-6) of a siemens.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An electrically insulating or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field.
  • adj. insulating
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Transmitting electric effects without conduction; nonconducting.
  • n. A substance through or across which electric force is acting.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity
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