Definition of "insulated" in English

adjective

1. Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.

2. Placed or set apart.

   • an insulated house or column

3. (of an electrically conducting material) Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.

   • Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.

4. (astronomy, dated) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the effect of their mutual attraction is undetectable.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of insulate