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Definition of "nonconductor" [non•con•duct•or]

  • A material that conducts little or no electricity, heat, or sound. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "nonconductor" in a sentence
  • "For he knew, as true men did not, that water, flowing water, was a nonconductor of distorts and illusions."
  • "The use of electricity for this purpose is made possible by the fact that comparatively dry cotton is a nonconductor of electricity."
  • "On this point he remarks that the evil effects of the scale are due to the fact that it is relatively a nonconductor of heat."