"superinsulator" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superinsulator.wav [US] Forms: superinsulators [plural]
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  1. A very efficient insulator
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  2. (physics) Any material that exhibits superinsulation
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Superconductivity Disambiguation of Superconductivity: 0 0

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