Usually means: Insulating material conducting no electricity.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. dielectric: Merriam-Webster
  2. dielectric: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dielectric: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dielectric: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dielectric: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dielectric, dielectric: Wordnik
  7. dielectric: Wiktionary
  8. dielectric: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dielectric: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dielectric: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dielectric: Dictionary.com
  12. Dielectric: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Dielectric: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. dielectric: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. dielectric: Rhymezone
  16. Dielectric: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. dielectric: FreeDictionary.org
  18. dielectric: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dielectric: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dielectric: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. dielectric: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dielectric: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. dielectric: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dielectric: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dielectric: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. dielectric: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. Dielectric: Fiberglass Glossary
  7. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  10. DIELECTRIC: Power Engineering
  11. Glossary of PCB Terms (No longer online)
  12. Semiconductor Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See dielectrics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dielectric)

noun:  (physics) An electrically insulating or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field.
adjective:  (electrically) insulating

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