An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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insulator
  عایق  
âyeq (#)
Fr.: isolant  

  1. A material or an object that does not easily allow heat, electricity, light, or sound to pass through it.

  2. Electricity: A material, such as glass or porcelain, that opposes a very high resistance to the passage of an electric current so that the flow of current through it is negligible; a nonconductor.

  3. One who, or that which, insulates.

Etymology (EN): Agent noun from → insulate + → -or.

Etymology (PE): Âyeq, loan from Ar.