INSULATE
, or Insulated, a term applied to a column or other edifice, which stands alone, or free and detached from any adjacent wall, &c, like an island in the sea.
Insulated, in Electricity, is a term applied to bodies that are supported by electrics, or non-conductors; so that their communication with the earth, by conducting substances, is interrupted.
INTACTÆ, are right lines to which curves do continually approach, and yet can never meet them more usually called Asymptotes.
