Word Meanings - JACKETING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing.

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• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• NONCONDUCTING
  Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• JACKETING
  The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing.
• MATERIALISM
  1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to
• NONCONDUCTOR
  A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of
• MATERIALIZATION
  The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
• MATERIALIST
  1. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. 2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the
• MATERIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity. 2. Importance; as, the materiality of facts.
• JACKETED
  Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket.
• MATERIALLY
  1. In the state of matter. I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not materially preëxistent in it. Boyle. 2. In its essence; substantially. An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself
• MATERIALIZE
  To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits. A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being. Epes Sargent. (more info) 1. To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible
• JACKET
  In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reënforcing the tube in which the charge is fired. 4. A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket. Blue jacket. See under Blue. --
• NONCONDUCTION
  The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.
• MATERIAL
  Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter. Material cause. See under Cause. -- Material evidence , evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis. Wharton. Syn. -- Corporeal; bodily;
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• DEMATERIALIZE
  To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
• IMMATERIALLY
  1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance. 2. In an unimportant manner or degree.
• WATER JACKET
  A chamber surrounding a vessel or tube in which water may be circulated, thereby regulating the temperature or supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment. water- jacketed. Having a water jacket; -- as,
• COMMATERIAL
  Consisting of the same material. Bacon.
• SUPERMATERIAL
  Being above, or superior to, matter.
• UNMATERIAL
  Not material; immaterial. Daniel.
• NORFOLK JACKET
  A kind of loose-fitting plaited jacket, having a loose belt.
• CARDIGAN JACKET
  A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.