chamber
271
3.9
- noun
- /ˈtʃeɪmbər/
:
cámara
- The heart has four distinct chambers that help pump blood throughout the body.
- inner chamber
- vacuum chamber
- combustion chamber
Until the reaction in the chamber stops and the vessels stop.
- Until the reaction in the chamber stops and the vessels stop.
- And it's just the the very chamber itself looks so eroded.
- So you use micro droplets as reaction chambers to basically amplify RNA.
- Nothing can get in or out of that sealed chamber except penetrating radiation.
- You have a chamber underneath that holds water.
- So this chamber is just air and fabric.
- Yeah, well, I don't think we even need a sound chamber to tell which one won that test.
Examples
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At the far end of the single great chamber, the god sat enthroned.
Fiction book (1990) -
You have a chamber underneath that holds water.
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The solid surface gives way to a dark chamber that was not there before.
Fiction book (1990) -
So I removed those pieces from the chamber just for ease of use.
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It's not in the same chamber as the cold plate.
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There was one more hidden chamber and it was the chamber for our hearts.
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Until the reaction in the chamber stops and the vessels stop.
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The odor was as strong in the dry underground chamber as it had been below.
Fiction book (1991) -
Workers tend fungal gardens in various chambers throughout the colony.
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The liner rotated while the chamber remained firmly attached to the test cell floor.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
An area in a building with walls, a floor, and a ceiling
716
1.0
A large natural underground chamber with an opening to the surface
235
3.0
A large stone building or underground room where people put a dead person
152
2.4
A small enclosed space inside a larger object, like a honeycomb or ice tray
108
1.3
A small room for people on a plane or ship
78
5.5
A small hollow space inside a rock or object that can hold other material
73
4.3
A very large dark cave or enclosed space
70
4.1
A natural hollow inside the body that holds organs like the heart
25
3.5
An area surrounded by a fence, wall, or natural feature
15
6.9
An underground room for holding the bodies of several people
14
3.8
A small empty space or dip in something
12
3.7
A room filled with hot steam where people sit to relax
8
5.1
A room in a home where a man relaxes and enjoys hobbies
6
3.8
An area surrounded by walls or barriers
5
9.9
A small stone room where a dead person is buried
4
5.5
A sealed medical room with higher air pressure and oxygen to help the body heal
4
6.3
A room under the ground that holds a dead body
3
4.7
A sealed container with almost all air removed for testing or making things
1
7.9
An underground space for burying a coffin that protects it and holds family coffins
1
7.2
A room made to make sound bounce and create echoes
1
8.8
A small space in the body that leads into another opening
1
7.6
A hollow space that makes sound or microwaves stronger, like inside a guitar and microwave oven
1
5.3
A space in an engine or pump where a piston moves to push and squeeze liquids and gases
1
9.9
A room in a palace where a king or queen receives guests
A small space inside a living thing or a tomb that holds seeds and other small parts
A room under a church used for burials or quiet prayer
A hollow tube inside a plant or animal where liquids pass
Compounds
- Offensive
8
7.7
A room where people are made to feel pain to punish or force them to speak
8
5.3
Music for a small group of instruments, like a string quartet, played for a small audience
- Specialized
4
5.5
A sealed medical room with higher air pressure and oxygen to help the body heal
- Specialized
3
4.7
A sealed container with almost all air removed for testing or making things
1
4.6
A small group of about ten to forty musicians who play classical music together
- Specialized
1
7.6
A hollow space that makes sound or microwaves stronger, like inside a guitar and microwave oven
- Archaic
1
7.8
A tank of very hot liquid where tiny bubbles show the paths of invisible particles
- Specialized
1
7.5
A device that shows the paths of tiny invisible particles as thin white streaks in a mist
- Specialized
1
9.4
A room that absorbs sound so there are no echoes, used for testing or recording
- Specialized
1
5.3
A space in an engine or pump where a piston moves to push and squeeze liquids and gases
- Literature
1
9.9
A small group that secretly makes important decisions that are not fair
- Specialized
A part of a canal with gates that raises or lowers boats by changing the water level
- Specialized
Device that measures radiation that makes charged particles by detecting those particles in a gas
- Specialized
A container that holds a liquid or material and lets it out when needed
- Specialized
A device that makes vapor tracks to show where tiny charged particles move
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Etymology
Chamber originally meant a 'room' or 'vault', from Latin camera, so it also refers to any closed 'space' inside something, like a room in a cave or the 'rooms' of the heart that hold blood.