adj
Meaning 1
insulating
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: electrically
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dielectric
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noun
Meaning 2
An electrically insulating or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: material, stuff
Narrower terms: bushing, mineral wool, rock wool, glass wool
History
Etymology
From dia- (“through”) + electric. Learned 19th-century formation, coined by William Whewell (died 1866).
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: изолационен (izolacionen) — electrically insulating
- Chinese Mandarin: 介電的 /介电的 (jièdiàn de) — electrically insulating
- Chinese Mandarin: 具有介電性的 /具有介电性的 (jùyǒu jièdiànxìng de) — electrically insulating
- Wu Chinese: 介電個 /介电个 (cia5 di6 gheh8) — electrically insulating
- Wu Chinese: 有介電性個 /有介电性个 (yeu6 cia5 di6 shin5 gheh8) — electrically insulating
- Czech: dielektrický — electrically insulating
- Danish: dielektrisk — electrically insulating
- Finnish: eristävä — electrically insulating
- Finnish: eriste- — electrically insulating
- Finnish: dielektrinen — electrically insulating
- French: diélectrique — electrically insulating
- German: dielektrisch — electrically insulating
- Norwegian Bokmål: dielektrisk — electrically insulating
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dielektrisk — electrically insulating
- Polish: dielektryczny — electrically insulating
- Portuguese: dielétrico — electrically insulating
- Russian: диэлектри́ческий (dielektríčeskij) — electrically insulating
- Swedish: dielektrisk — electrically insulating
- Bulgarian: изолатор (izolator) — physics: nonconducting material
- Catalan: dielèctric — physics: nonconducting material
- Chinese Mandarin: 電介質 /电介质 (diànjièzhì) — physics: nonconducting material
- Chinese Mandarin: 電介質材料 /电介质材料 (diànjièzhìcáiliào) — physics: nonconducting material
- Wu Chinese: 電介質 /电介质 — physics: nonconducting material
- Wu Chinese: 電介質材料 /电介质材料 — physics: nonconducting material
- Czech: dielektrikum — physics: nonconducting material
- Danish: dielektrikum — physics: nonconducting material
- Finnish: eriste — physics: nonconducting material
- Finnish: dielektri — physics: nonconducting material
- German: Dielektrikum — physics: nonconducting material
- Hindi: परावैद्युत (parāvaidyut) — physics: nonconducting material
- Italian: dielettrico — physics: nonconducting material
- Japanese: 誘電体 (yūdentai) — physics: nonconducting material
- Polish: dielektryk — physics: nonconducting material
- Portuguese: dielétrico — physics: nonconducting material
- Romanian: dielectric — physics: nonconducting material
- Russian: диэле́ктрик (dieléktrik) — physics: nonconducting material
- Spanish: dieléctrico — physics: nonconducting material
- Swedish: dielektrikum — physics: nonconducting material
- Tagalog: disaluyan — physics: nonconducting material
- Turkmen: dielektrik — physics: nonconducting material
- Vietnamese: điện môi — physics: nonconducting material
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