Crossword clues for nonconductor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonconductor \Non`con*duct"or\, n. (Physics) A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.
Wiktionary
n. any material that does not conduct electricity; a dielectric
WordNet
n. a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity [syn: insulator, dielectric] [ant: conductor]
Usage examples of "nonconductor".
For he knew, as true men did not, that water, flowing water, was a nonconductor of distorts and illusions.
Stresstacine had now given way to gray nonconductor, a rubbery substance which served only to keep out the cold and retain the heat.
The stuff had the advantage of being a nonconductor, which meant that it kept out the cold.
A titanic shell of eight-inch cosmium, a space, with braces of the same nonconductor of heat, cosmium, and a two inch inner hull.