dielectric strength

noun

, Electricity.

1. the maximum voltage that can be applied to a given material without causing it to break down, usually expressed in volts or kilovolts per unit of thickness.

Example Sentences

That is because the air’s dielectric strength increases as humidity goes up.

From Washington Post

That is the reason why the rate of change is very much greater when glass, for instance, is broken through, than when the break takes place through an air space of equivalent dielectric strength.

From Project Gutenberg

We have to consider in connection with this part of the subject the dielectric strength of air under different pressures and for different thicknesses.

From Project Gutenberg

M. d'Arsonval has employed micanite, but although this material has a considerably higher dielectric strength than glass, it is much more expensive to obtain a given capacity by means of micanite than by glass, although the bulk of the condenser for a given capacity is less.

From Project Gutenberg

Although some materials may have very high dielectric strength, such as paper saturated with various oils, or resins, yet they cannot be used for the purpose of making condensers to yield oscillatory discharges, because the oscillations are damped out of existence too soon by the dielectric.

From Project Gutenberg