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insulation

English

Etymology

insulate +? -ion

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??nsj??le???n/
  • (US) IPA(key): /??ns??le???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

insulation (countable and uncountable, plural insulations)

  1. The act of insulating; detachment from other objects; isolation.
  2. The state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
  3. Any of a variety of materials designed to reduce the flow of heat, either from or into a building.
  4. (engineering) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound
  5. (engineering) The state of a body so separated.
  6. (electricity) a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.

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Translations

insulation From the web:

  • what insulation for walls
  • what insulation for attic
  • what insulation for garage walls
  • what insulation for 2x4 walls
  • what insulation to use
  • what insulation for ceiling
  • what insulation for basement walls
  • what insulation for crawl space


isolating

English

Verb

isolating

  1. present participle of isolate

Adjective

isolating (comparative more isolating, superlative most isolating)

  1. (linguistics, of languages) having low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morpheme

Anagrams

  • intaglios, ligations, logitians, taglionis

isolating From the web:

  • what isolation
  • what isolation does to the brain
  • what isolationism
  • what isolation precautions for covid
  • what isolation precautions for pneumonia
  • what isolation mean
  • what isolation is covid
  • what isolation is meningitis
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