insulated
adj1
Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.
2
Placed or set apart.
- an insulated house or column
- the special and insulated situation of the Jews1846, Thomas De Quincey, “On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine:
3
Of an electrically conducting material Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.
- Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.
- Speed by now was now down to 25 m.p.h., but that universal tool, the insulated screwdriver, with its business end gingerly applied to the relay coil, enabled us to keep going as far as Grantham, where a more permanent remedy could be effected.1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:
- Derived terms
- preinsulated, superinsulated, uninsulated