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muffle

muffle

1 9.8
An enclosed chamber like a small oven used to heat delicate objects
  • noun
  • /ˈmʌfəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : horno de mufla
  • It claims that its muffles typically provide two to three times the life of the muffle they are replacing.
  • muffle furnace

Examples

  • It claims that its muffles typically provide two to three times the life of the muffle they are replacing.

    Academic text (2003)
  • O.S., a faint muffle can be heard. INT.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • The estimation of ash contents was carried out by using a muffle furnace at a temperature.

    Academic text (2014)
  • [sounds muffle]

  • Alloy Engineering muffles are not off-the-shelf designs; each is specifically designed for optimum performance and life in its intended application.

    Academic text (2003)
  • For inorganic analysis, a 50 mg sample of root, stem, or shoot was ashed in a muffle furnace.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Crude ash was analyzed by igniting the flour samples in a muffle furnace at 550°C for 8 hours.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Returning, however, to the fact that under the headings of custom and convention, law and authority, we are primarily concerned with public, with institutionalized aspects of life, Montaigne makes further distinctions that ease somewhat the tensions, muffle somewhat the dissonances that we have encountered in following his discussions of them.

    Academic text (2000)
  • PHOTO (COLOR): The array of specialized artifacts found at the Oberstockstall castle in Lower Austria included cupels, scorifiers, crucibles, muffles, flasks, still heads, and cucurbits.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The potter carefully placed the clay objects inside the muffle to fire them without direct contact with the flame.

Synonyms

kiln
vsmuffle
  • Specialized
20 6.3

A hot oven for drying and making things like pottery or bricks hard

is a specific type with an inner chamber for lower temperature firing

Surface Forms

muffle singular
muffles plural

Etymology

Muffle for the small kiln comes from the same idea of 'covering' or 'protecting'; a muffle is an inner chamber that 'protects' objects from direct flame so they are heated slowly and gently.