nonconductor

1. 1.

   a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity

   Synonymsinsulatordielectric

   Broadermaterial

   Narrowerbushingmineral woolglass wool

Other forms of nonconductor

plural

nonconductors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

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: non-con-duc-tor. The stress falls on "con".

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.