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Isolator

Isolator \I"so*la`tor\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[~e]r or [imac]s"[-o]*l[=a]`t[~e]r), n. One who, or that which, isolates.

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isolator

n. an electrical device that detects short circuits and isolates them

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Isolator (EP)

Isolator is the 2006 follow-up to the self-titled debut album by Two Hours Traffic, a Canadian indie rock, power pop band from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. It was nominated for Alternative Recording of the Year at the 2007 East Coast Music Awards. The song "Purple Eyes / Yellow Light" was used in an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation. "Jezebel" and "Stuck for the Summer" were used in the first season of Gossip Girl. "Jezebel" was also used in Castle season 1 episode 3.

Isolator

Isolator may refer to:

  • Isolator (EP), by Two Hours Traffic
  • Isolator switch, used in electrical circuits
  • Isolator (microwave) a two-port device that transmits microwave power in one direction only
  • Optical isolator, a directional device in optical fiber communications
  • Opto-isolator, a directional device in electronics
  • Barrier isolator, a device that provides a physical barrier between a laboratory technician and a work process
  • Vibration isolator, any of various devices to isolate connected parts of an assembly from each other's vibrations
    • Bushing (isolator), one type of vibration isolator
Isolator (microwave)

An isolator is a two-port device that transmits microwave or radio frequency power in one direction only. It is used to shield equipment on its input side, from the effects of conditions on its output side; for example, to prevent a microwave source being detuned by a mismatched load.

Usage examples of "isolator".

An Isolator was dropped to effectively cut the humans off from the greatest number of their warheads.

The Isolator regarded the glass ball, juggling it on fingers of pure force.

But there had been so little of the latter and so much of the former since the war had been won that the Isolator craved activity (and tried to satisfy the longing through toys like the gnome).

Perhaps, the Isolator mused, it was not wise to build weapons which were alive.

The naoli had made certain that the Isolator could not think about itself, as an entity, for more than a few seconds at a time.

Its pseudopods of plastic flesh thinned into two molecule thicknesses and pressed through the vat, beyond the Isolator station and into the warm sands of Earth's desert.

The harsh sting of the alarms sliced through the Isolator from the monitors in the station.

It almost rushed the majority of its bulk through the wall into the screen room and managed to check itself just a hair this side of disaster (at least half of the Isolator must remain within the nurturing vat at all times).

The Isolator tapped one of the monitoring posts which the shuttlecraft was approaching, released a spy-bee from the distant outpost's storage unit.

As the bee spun out across the desert, the Isolator guided it, watching what the mechanical insect saw as the images were projected on the largest of the screens.

The Isolator only covers an area of a hundred or two hundred miles square, depending on the model.

Within the vat, the independent cells of the Isolator worked together according to the dictates of their group consciousness.

It emanated from the flesh of the Isolator and clung to the warm, metal walls like a film of grease.

Before either of them could say more, the Isolator fragment swept back at them streaked only feet above the shuttlecraft roof again.

The Isolator surged around the machine, a colorful mass of rippling amber and emerald, the gray patches no longer in evidence—or perhaps muted by the sun in favor of the brighter hues.