Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. electrical tape
WordNet
n. a water-resistant adhesive tape used to insulate exposed electrical conductors [syn: friction tape]
Usage examples of "insulating tape".
You must have rolls and rolls of insulating tape in your electrical department.
To ensure that these wires never touched each other, he drew one down each side of the battery and whipped both wires and battery together with insulating tape.
Then he fished in the haversack at his side, withdrew a roll of black insulating tape, and straightened up.
He rummaged in his drawer until he found a roll of insulating tape.
There was junk everywhere, toppled stacks of tapes, print-out, dirty plates, clothes strewn over sound equipment, books, towels, burnt-out candles, package shells, customised appliances with insulating tape and rubber flex sticking out of them.
It was not electrical tape such as might be used by telephone repairmen but was a common weather insulating tape available in almost any hardware store.
He pushed the trigger into the stuffing inside and closed the slit with a strip of black insulating tape.
She had wrapped insulating tape around each one to distinguish the ammunition.
He came back with four short lengths of strong wire and a roll of insulating tape, and with these he proceeded to set me free.
Shannon took the two false number plates from the facia and whipped them onto the real number plates with sticky insulating tape.