Damper
['dæmpə] or ['dæmpɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a depressing restraint; 'rain put a damper on our picnic plans'.
(noun.) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations.
(noun.) a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace.
Edited by Davy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
Checker: Wayne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Check, hinderance, obstacle, impediment, lion in the way.[2]. Discouragement, wet blanket, cold water.
Edited by Hardy
Examples
- If the damper is kept open, coal is rapidly consumed, and the additional heat passes out through the chimney, and is lost to use. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When the fire is started, the damper should be opened wide in order to allow the escape of smoke; but after the fire is well started there is less smoke, and the damper may be partly closed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They were, perhaps, overtaken by the growth of the European forests, as the climate became milder and damper. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The nitrogen in the bottle, not only does not assist the burning of the match, but it acts as a damper to the burning. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Erard particularly made many improvements in that and in the nineteenth century in the piano, its hammers and keys, and Southwell of Dublin in the dampers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checker: Mitchell