anechoic chamber | a chamber having very little reverberation |
bedroom sleeping room sleeping accommodation chamber bedchamber | a room used primarily for sleeping |
boardroom council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
boron chamber | an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons |
bubble chamber | an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles |
burial chamber sepulcher sepulchre sepulture | a chamber that is used as a grave |
chamber | a natural or artificial enclosed space |
chamber | a room where a judge transacts business |
cloud chamber Wilson cloud chamber | apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor, each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track |
core | a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil |
core | the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place |
core magnetic core | (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data, now superseded by semiconductor memories, each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit |
core bit | a hollow drilling bit that is the cutting part of a core drill, allows core samples to be taken |
core drill | a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole |
crematory crematorium cremation chamber | a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes |
cylinder piston chamber | a chamber within which piston moves |
echo chamber | an enclosed space for producing reverberation of a sound |
firing chamber gun chamber | chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge |
gas chamber death chamber | instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced, used to kill people or animals |
hyperbaric chamber | a large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere, used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning |
ionization chamber ionization tube | a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation |
lock lock chamber | enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level, used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it |
magnetic core memory core memory | (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores, now superseded by semiconductor memories |
presence chamber | room in which a monarch or other great person receives guests, assemblies, etc. |
resonator cavity resonator resonating chamber | a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves |
spark chamber spark counter | an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles |
supply chamber | a mechanical device for holding something and supplying it as needed |
torture chamber | a room in which torture is inflicted |
vacuum chamber | a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed |
chamber | an enclosed volume in the body, the chambers of his heart were healthy |
kernel substance core center centre essence gist heart heart and soul inwardness marrow meat nub pith sum nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
core dump | (computer science) dump of the contents of the chief registers in the CPU, usually used for debugging |
effect essence burden core gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
chamber music | serious music performed by a small group of musicians |
core nucleus core group | a small group of indispensable persons or things, five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program |
chamber orchestra | small orchestra, usually plays classical music |
Congress of Racial Equality CORE | an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in to work for racial equality |
chamber | a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly, the upper chamber is the senate |
chamber of commerce | an association of businessmen to protect and promote business interests |
Star Chamber | a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments |
hard core | the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement |
core | the center of an object, the ball has a titanium core |
core | the central part of the Earth |
core | a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill |
hollow hollow out core out | remove the interior of, hollow out a tree trunk |
core | remove the core or center from, core an apple |
chamber | place in a chamber |
hard-core hardcore | extremely explicit, hard-core pornography |
hard-core hardcore | intensely loyal, his hard-core supporters |
hard-core | stubbornly resistant to change or improvement, hard-core addicts |