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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity;
[syn: insulator, dielectric, nonconductor]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dielectric \Di`e*lec"tric\, n. [Pref. dia- + electric.] (Elec.) Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor, separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dielectric n 1: a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity [syn: insulator, dielectric, nonconductor] [ant: conductor]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "dielectric": conductance, conduction, conductivity, conductor, electric conduction, gas conduction, insulator, ionic conduction, liquid conduction, metallic conduction, mho, nonconducting, nonconductive, nonconductor, photoconduction, semiconductor, superconductivity, superconductor