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Dielectric

noun
1.
A material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity.  Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor.  Antonym: conductor.



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... electrodynamics of extended media, all magnetism has to be replaced by a distribution of current; the latter being now specified by volume as well as by flow so that (u,v,w) dt is the current in the element of volume dt. In the present case the total dielectric contribution to this current works out to be the change per unit time in the electric separation in the molecules of the element of volume, as it moves uniformly with the matter, all other effects being compensated molecularly ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



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