verb Download 🔗Share To separate, detach, or isolate. Examples : "The thick walls of the recording studio insulated the sound from the outside world. " material technology physics building science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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adjective Download 🔗Share Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material. Examples : "The house's walls were insulated to keep the inside cool in the summer and warm in the winter. " material utility building energy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Placed or set apart. Examples : "an insulated house or column" material property Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share (of an electrically conducting material) Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity. Examples : "Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic." material electronics technical utility energy physics science device building electric Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the effect of their mutual attraction is undetectable. Examples : "The distant stars in the constellation are so insulated that their gravitational pull on each other is negligible. " astronomy physics space Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading