shielding
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5.0
- noun
- /ˈʃiːldɪŋ/
- Specialized
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apantallamiento
- The engineers designed special shielding to protect the laboratory from harmful radiation.
- EMI shielding
- magnetic shielding
- provide shielding
And then other than that typical shielding for everything, I think there's an LED under this chipset cover chipset heat sink.
- And then other than that typical shielding for everything, I think there's an LED under this chipset cover chipset heat sink.
- They have what's called a shielding mechanism that suppresses these fields near heavy objects like our planet or the sun.
Examples
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On the other hand, the radiation shielding may decay if not protected from the heat.
Fiction book (1999) -
Why would you choose lead for the shielding and beryllium for the window?
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Last thing we were thinking about was radiation shielding.
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About your request for radiation shielding, sorry to report this request has been denied.
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The radiation from it would kill us right through our shielding if we went into orbit too close.
Fiction book (1991) -
Space facilities would need shielding or have to be abandoned altogether.
Fiction book (1990) -
Thermal shielding held back the heat for the milliseconds each electronic package needed.
Fiction book (1999) -
The Martian regolith can also be used as a shielding material for habitats.
Academic text (2006) -
A fallout shelter in your basement will give adequate shielding from radioactive fallout.
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Dow's polyolefin film is used by cable manufacturers to provide shielding around electrical and mechanical cables.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
974
1.0
Keeping people or things safe from harm
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2.9
A broad piece of armor held to protect someone from harm
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6.4
An invisible barrier of energy that keeps a place or object from harm
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1.1
A thing placed over something to protect or hide it
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4.6
A layer or device that protects a spacecraft from very hot air when it returns to the atmosphere
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2.7
An object placed over something to keep it safe from damage
A shield that protects people and machines from harmful radiation
Something you put over a thing to keep it safe from damage
Giving a layer that keeps things safe from damage
A protective layer added to something to stop damage
Antonyms
How Protective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shielding comes from shield + -ing, where a shield is a hard cover used to stop attacks—think of a metal shield stopping arrows; so shielding means material or layers that block harmful forces like radiation or electrical interference.