insulative

English

Etymology

From insulate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

insulative (comparative more insulative, superlative most insulative)

1. Serving to insulate
   • 1973, The United States Patents Quarterly - Volume 178‎^[1], page 267:

     Housed resistors have their wire- wound cores embedded in an insulative material which is enclosed within the housing.

   • 1995, Electrical Overstress Electrostatic Discharge Symposium, Proceedings: 1995‎^[2], →ISBN:

     The charge, that is applied and results in the measured voltage, may or may not pass through the insulative layer to the metallized film.

   • 2012, Niels Jonassen, Electrostatics‎^[3], →ISBN, page 132:

     And although charged insulated conductors do appear in many practical, industrial as well as everyday, situations, there is no doubt that charged insulative materials are far more common.