isolate
verb (used with object)
to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
isolator
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a word derived from
isolate.
Example Sentences
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This could have been an opportunity for Washington to isolate the isolator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
This property is utilised in a central component of optical communication networks known as an "optical isolator" or "optical diode."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2024
The asteroid samples will be placed in a nitrogen environment in large, custom-designed isolator glove boxes to keep them pristine and away from the terrestrial atmosphere.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 24, 2023
Keep an eye out for new concentrate formats coming from all over the world, like piattella, which is frozen bubble isolator cold cure.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023
Mendel, as we shall see, was an instinctual gardener—a breeder of plants, a counter of seeds, an isolator of traits; Darwin was a garden digger—a classifier of plants, an organizer of specimens, a taxonomist.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
