DAMPER
\dˈampə], \dˈampə], \d_ˈa_m_p_ə]\
Definitions of DAMPER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
By Princeton University
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a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Damply.
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Dampness.
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One who or that which damps or checks; a device to check the draft, as of a stove.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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That which damps; a valvo or sliding plate in a flue to regulate the draught of air: a contrivance in a pianoforte by which the sound is deadened: a hastily-baked cake.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That which damps or checks; in Australia, &c., a kind of unleavened bread; in a locomotive engine, a kind of iron venetian blind fixed to the smoke-box end of the boiler, which is shut down when the engine is standing, and opened when it is running.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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