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superinsulating

superinsulating is the present participle and gerund of superinsulate.

Adjective

superinsulating (not comparable)

  1. Displaying infinite resistivity at finite temperatures; in a state of superinsulation.
    • Electron overheating has been shown to give a consistent description of this behavior, but there are other, more exotic, explanations including a novel, superinsulating state and a many-body localized state.2016, Tal Levinson, Adam Doron, Idan Tamir, Girish Chandra Tewari, Dan Shahr, “A Direct Determination of the Temperature of Overheated Electrons in an Insulator”, in arXiv
  2. Capable of producing superinsulation.
    • Silica aerogels as translucent or transparent superinsulating fillers in window systems could help to considerably reduce thermal losses in windows and to improve the energy balance in passive solar systems.2012, Jochen Fricke, Aerogels, →ISBN, page v

Meaning of superinsulate

Verb

superinsulate (third-person singular simple present superinsulates, present participle superinsulating, simple past and past participle superinsulated)

  1. To produce superinsulation.
    • Household usership of the sunspace is the key to the organization of interior spaces. directly into a massive rock or block storage maze in the former crawl space and simply superinsulate a monolithic east, west, and north wall?1981, Don Metz, Superhouse, page 84

Origin of superinsulating

From super- + insulating.

Questions about superinsulating

What does superinsulating mean?
Superinsulating means displaying infinite resistivity at finite temperatures; in a state of superinsulation.
What is superinsulating the present participle and gerund of?
Superinsulating is the present participle and gerund of superinsulate.
What part of speech is superinsulating?
Superinsulating is an adjective.

Words near superinsulating in the dictionary

  1. superinstitutions
  2. superinsular
  3. superinsulate
  4. superinsulated
  5. superinsulates
  6. superinsulating
  7. superinsulation
  8. superinsulator
  9. superinsulators
  10. superintegrabilities
  11. superintegrability

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