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Definition
to separate two things to prevent passage of something such as heat, cold, noise, or electricity — often by covering one of the things with a material
- And opening an insulated door he showed them racks upon racks of numbered test-tubes.p. 5.1
insulated = designed to prevent passage of heat or sound
- The molten stone poured out in a stream of dazzling incandescence across the road, the asbestos rollers came and went; at the tail of an insulated watering cart the steam rose in white clouds.p. 62.9
insulated = designed to prevent transfer of heat
There are no more uses of "insulate" in Brave New World.
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