insulative

Serving to insulate.

Adjective

  1. Serving to insulate.
    • Housed resistors have their wire- wound cores embedded in an insulative material which is enclosed within the housing. - 1973, The United States Patents Quarterly - Volume 178, page 267:
    • The charge, that is applied and results in the measured voltage, may or may not pass through the insulative layer to the metallized film. - 1995, Electrical Overstress Electrostatic Discharge Symposium, Proceedings:...
    • And although charged insulated conductors do appear in many practical, industrial as well as everyday, situations, there is no doubt that charged insulative materials are far more common. - 2012, Niels Jonassen,...

Origin

From insulate + -ive.

Forms

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