insulating tape

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

   Synonymsfriction tape

   Broaderadhesive tape

Questions about insulating tape

What does insulating tape mean?

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

What is another word for insulating tape?

Close synonyms include friction 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 insulating tape a common word?

insulating 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.