WordNet
n. a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity [syn: insulant, insulation]
Usage examples of "insulating material".
The final outer garment was crude - much more primitive than the pressure suit - just layers of white Beta-cloth, fibre-glass filaments coated with Teflon, with heat-retentive insulating material between, the chest unit studded with umbilical connectors and controls.
It was a stock, surmounted by a sphere, glowing as the other, but the barrel here was a curious thing, a straight tube of the insulating material, with metal ribs running lengthwise, but surrounded by toroidal coils set at progressively changing angles.
If we had some good insulating material, we could make an ice cave cozy enough to keep us alive for three or four times that long at a lower setting .
If we had some good insulating material, we could make an ice cave cozy enough to keep us alive for three or four times that long at a lower setting.
And in the middle of it all a circle had been cleared in the insulating material, from the centre of which a single spiral of yellow electric light poked up into the room.
The pipes were bound with insulating material, but they hung an inch away from snow so compacted that it was almost ice.
I believe that he and Hamian had rather a vociferous confrontation over the filler plant Hamian's been developing as an insulating material.
The books make reasonably good insulating material, and when we arrive at our future home, if we do not arrive with too hard a blow, we will be provided with an enormous and complete library.
Reaching into her suit top, she extricated a packet of insulating material and unrolled it on the table.
Under this is a second layer, a newly developed insulating material.
He timidly reached and lifted a bundle of shredded insulating material and quickly dropped it when a burst of sparks erupted from it.