friction tape

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   a water-resistant adhesive tape used to insulate exposed electrical conductors

   Synonymsinsulating tape

   Broaderadhesive tape

Questions about friction tape

What does friction tape mean?

friction tape means "a water-resistant adhesive tape used to insulate exposed electrical conductors".

What is another word for friction tape?

Close synonyms include insulating tape. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is friction tape a common word?

friction tape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.