nonconductor

Questions about nonconductor

What does nonconductor mean?

nonconductor means "a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity".

How many syllables are in nonconductor?

nonconductor has 4 syllables and divides as non-con-duc-tor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nonconductor?

Close synonyms include insulator, dielectric. 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 nonconductor a common word?

nonconductor 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.