DIELECTRIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dielectric mean? 

• DIELECTRIC (noun)
  The noun DIELECTRIC has 1 sense:

1. a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity

  Familiarity information: DIELECTRIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIELECTRIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

dielectric; insulator; nonconductor

Hypernyms ("dielectric" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dielectric"):

bushing (an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass)

mineral wool; rock wool (a light fibrous material used as an insulator)

glass wool (glass fibers spun and massed into bundles resembling wool)

 Context examples 

A CGS unit of magnetic field strength in a dielectric equal to Gauss multiplied by the number inverse to the magnetic permeability, or as the field strength in a vacuum at a distance one centimeter from a unit magnetic pole.

(Oersted, NCI Thesaurus)