What is "insulating"

Usage examples of "insulating".

The birdcage still looks shrink-wrapped under a layer of silver insulating foil, and teardrop-shapes are bustling about it, inside and out.

Even the rubber insulating coatings of the sparkplug and other wires were left behind, but the metal wires themselves had been pulled right out.

By degrees, Trav became aware of his surroundings: the sharp coldness of the air inside the car, the layer of snow insulating him from the world.

The Shockwave of some explosion, no more than a thin wall of expanding gas, caught Michel up like a butterfly and hurled him across the jagged glass of a landscape that he could not feel with Lancelot insulating him from injury.

I had spoken to the technicians in the relays, but I did not think there were many living telepaths who had actually stepped through the insulating veils.

As soon as Digen walked in the door, Cloris Agar stepped out of one of the cubicles partitioned off by heavy insulating drapes.

But, since the activator was still operating and the entrance was fairly narrow, it continued to function as a curtain of insulating negative force, a curtain which had holes in it through which one could occasionally "peek" by means of the anthropometer at the people imprisoned inside.

Most body hair is shed, since that'd just cause aquadynamic drag and on this cross-section, we see where an extra layer of insulating blubber develops, and the musculature is reshaped.

A truhand encased in insulating fabric waved at the much taller guide, who comprehended nothing of the meaning behind the gesture.

Nikko had spent months planning their approach to Alpha Cygni, developing a scheme to pull the ship's uncontammated mass in from bow and stern, to encase the core region in a shield layered with insulating vacuum.

Even men vowed to poverty right often fall to the insistent temptation of silver and gold, and what with the decimations of the clergy by the Priests' Plague, not all of the men making up his insulating layers were men of the cloth, anyway.

Broke up the original insulating material into its constituent tolylene diisocyanate and poly(oxypropylene)triol.

Amberdrake put the claw back in Leyuet's hand, wrapped again in the insulating silk.

I gave him the insulating paint that protects his own ships and weapons from it, and now some day I shall give him something else – something that will be as revolutionary in the art of war as the disintegrating ray itself.

Previous owners had made a halfhearted attempt to create a usable space out of it, insulating the roof and putting in a drop ceiling so that it resembled a room, albeit not for the particularly tall, the ceiling only about seven feet high.