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Insulated vs Thermopane - What's the difference?

insulated | thermopane |

As an adjective insulated

is protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.

As a verb insulated

is past tense of insulate.

As a noun thermopane is

an insulated glazing unit.

insulated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.
  • Placed or set apart.
    • an insulated house or column
  • * De Quincey
    • the special and insulated situation of the Jews
  • (of an electrically conducting material) Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.
    • Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.
  • (astronomy, dated) 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 effect of their mutual attraction is undetectable.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (insulate)

    • Anagrams

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    thermopane

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An insulated glazing unit.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 20, author=Mark Svenvold, title=The Zero-Energy Solution, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=There was nothing odd, or futuristic, or exotically “eco” about the house — no solar panels to be seen, no giant arrays of thermopane windows passively drinking up light and heat; yet here, I’d been told, in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan, was a house that had the potential — not long from now, not 20 years from now, but maybe within 5 to 10 years — to help turn millions of American homes into fully self-sustaining power plants, each one capable of producing hydrogen to fuel cars as well. }}