friction tape

American  

noun

1. a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.

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friction tape British  

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): insulating tape.  adhesive tape, impregnated with a moisture-repelling substance, used to insulate exposed electrical conductors

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Etymology

Origin of friction tape

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

That led Tutmarc to begin experimenting and eventually to building a horseshoe-shaped magnet, with coils wound around it, and wrapping the grapefruit-sized contraption with friction tape.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2018

Soon after he took office as Vice President, Nixon became the Administration's "Mr. Fixit," the handyman with a ball of friction tape who bound up leaky pipes and raw wires.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cross-country skiers straggled in and blamed the wax; slow lugers cursed the friction tape on their sleds.

From Time Magazine Archive

While building the first commercial electric light plant he was forced to invent switches, cables, fuses, even the friction tape for splices.

From Time Magazine Archive

The joint should now be covered with a layer of rubber tape and this covered with a layer of ordinary friction tape.

From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Manly, Harold P. (Harold Phillips)