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n.
The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.
a.
Insular.
imp. & p. p.
of Insulate
a.
Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.
a.
Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices.
p. a.
Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.
n.
A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy.
n.
The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
n.
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.
a.
Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
n.
The substance or body that insulates; a nonconductor.
n.
A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.
n.
Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.
adv.
In an insular manner.
n.
The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Insulate
n.
One who, or that which, insulates.
n.
A rocky isle; an insulated rock.
n.
A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.
n.
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
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