insulated Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material
    insulate.
    • We had his bedroom insulated before winter came
  2. verb place or set apart
    isolate; insulate.
    • They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates

WordNet

In"su*la`ted participial adjective
Definitions
  1. Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.
    The special and insulated situation of the Jews. De Quincey.
  2. (Elect. & Thermotics) Separated from other bodies by means of nonconductors of heat or electricity.
  3. (Astron.) 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 affect of their mutual attraction is insensible. C. A. Young.

Webster 1913