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insulator: 1)In electricity, a material used to prevent the passage of current between two conductive bodies; 2)in thermodynamics, a material used to prevent the passage of heat for safety, or to prevent the loss of heat for economy
Category: Management in the public and private sector

insulator: a substance in which the normal band is a filled band separated from the first excitation band by a forbidden band of such width that the energy needed to excite electrons from the normal band to the conduction band is so large as to disrupt the substance
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

insulator: a material having a large forbidden energy gap between two energy bands,the one at lower energy being completely filled and the one at higher energy being completely empty at absolute zero
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

insulator: a device intended for electrical insulation and mechanical fixing of equipment or conductors which are subject to potential differences
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

silicon-on-insulator: sapphire or spinal with crystal structures very similar to silicon acting as an insulating surface onto which silicon is deposited in a thin layer; this layer can be etched so as to form insulated islands into which transistors can be diffused
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

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