0 present participle of insulate
1 to cover and surround something with a material or substance in order to stop heat, sound, or electricity from escaping or entering:
2 to protect someone or something from harmful experiences or influences:
Unfortunately for presidents, the number of agencies created by statute has increased over time, as has the number of agencies with insulating characteristics.
While not as insulating as longer terms, they still serve to insulate administrative actors from presidential direction.
The membrane walls are both flux-free and electrically insulating to leading order.
On their interiors he placed light insulating elements and then interior panelling or plaster.
Such constraints arise from no-slip contact between the insulating layer and the actuators.
But, while the 2 former studies were performed in climates without long periods of frost, an insulating snow layer was reported in the latter.
Like any nested programming model, this recursive structure ensures that components may be easily reused in combination with one another while insulating their internal structure.
For example, collapse through a change of state in a planet's core might set up an insulating layer.
