ˈisolator
[agent-n. from isolate v.: see -or.]
One who or that which isolates; a contrivance for isolating, an insulator.
| 1855 Mayne Expos. Lex., Isolator, the apparatus used in electrical experiments for isolating bodies. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 126 [An] Isolator..in a minute repeater [is] a device for keeping the click from contact with the surprise piece on the minute snail till the slide in the band of the case is pushed round. 1900 Pilot 4 Aug. 138/2 The piano must be..placed on glass salt cellars, if the old fashioned isolators are not at hand. |