Definition of Nonconductors

1. Noun. (plural of nonconductor) ¹

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Definition of Nonconductors

1. nonconductor [n] - See also: nonconductor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonconductors

noncondemning
noncondensable
noncondensate
noncondensed
noncondensible
noncondensing
nonconditional
nonconditionally
nonconditioned
nonconducting
nonconduction
nonconductive
nonconductivity
nonconductor
nonconductors (current term)
nonconference
nonconfessing
nonconfession
nonconfessional
nonconfessions
nonconfidence
nonconfidences
nonconfident
nonconfidential
nonconfigurable
nonconfined
nonconfinement
nonconfining
nonconfirmatory

Literary usage of Nonconductors

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. General Physics: An Elementary Text-book for Colleges by Henry Crew (1919)
"CONDUCTORS AND nonconductors 334. A second great discovery in electrostatics was made by Stephen Gray in London (d. 1736). He found that when a glass rod is ..."

2. A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts by Thomas Young (1845)
"... particularly in the properties of charged substances, which depend on the resistance opposed by nonconductors to the ready transmission of the fluid. ..."

3. Elements of Electricity and Electro-chemistry. by George John Singer (1814)
"nonconductors are also sometimes called electrics, and occasionally insulators ; but the latter term is only applicable to he most perfect of them. ..."

4. The Poetical Works of Erasmus Darwin ...: Containing the Botanic Garden, in by Erasmus Darwin (1806)
"... accumulated by contact of conductors with nonconductors, by vicinity of the two ethers, by heat, and by decom~ ..."

5. First Year Science by William Henry Snyder (1914)
"Substances like copper that conduct electricity are called conductors, and those substances like silk which will not conduct it, nonconductors. ..."

6. Hand-books of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy by Dionysius Lardner, George Carey Foster (1874)
"Conductors and nonconductors.—Bodies differ from each other in a striking manner in the freedom with which the electric fluid moves upon them. ..."

7. Elements of Natural Philosophy: Embracing the General Principles of by Leonard Dunnell Gale (1838)
"Any bpdy is said to be insulated when placed in such a situation as to be surrounded by nonconductors. Thus, the metallic bar in the experiment last ..."

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