Air chamber
() A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. |
Air chamber
() A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine. |
Chamber
(n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping |
Chamber
(n.) Apartments in a lodging house. |
Chamber
(n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets |
Chamber
(n.) A legislative or judicial body |
Chamber
(n.) A compartment or cell |
Chamber
(n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business |
Chamber
(n.) A chamber pot. |
Chamber
(n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore |
Chamber
(n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder. |
Chamber
(n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades. |
Chamber
(v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. |
Chamber
(v. i.) To be lascivious. |
Chamber
(v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber. |
Chamber
(v. t.) To furnish with a chamber |
Combustion
(n.) The state of burning. |
Combustion
(n.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. |
Combustion
(n.) Violent agitation |
First-rate
(a.) Of the highest excellence |
First-rate
(n.) A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class. |
Heat
(n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric. |
Heat
(n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body |
Heat
(n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold |
Heat
(n.) Indication of high temperature |
Heat
(n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace |
Heat
(n.) A violent action unintermitted |
Heat
(n.) Utmost violence |
Heat
(n.) Agitation of mind |
Heat
(n.) Animation, as in discourse |
Heat
(n.) Sexual excitement in animals. |
Heat
(n.) Fermentation. |
Heat
(v. t.) To make hot |
Heat
(v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion |
Heat
(v. t.) To excite ardor in |
Heat
(v. i.) To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat |
Heat
(v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action |
Heat
(imp. & p. p.) Heated |
Rate
(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence |
Rate
(n.) Established portion or measure |
Rate
(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion |
Rate
(n.) Valuation |
Rate
(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value |
Rate
(n.) Order |
Rate
(n.) Ratification |
Rate
(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time |
Rate
(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc. |
Rate
(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc. |
Rate
(v. t.) To set a certain estimate on |
Rate
(v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax. |
| liberation release freeing | the act of liberating someone or something |
| release tone ending | (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone |
release waiver
discharge | a formal written statement of relinquishment |
dismissal
dismission
discharge firing liberation release sack
sacking | the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) |
spill
spillage
release | the act of allowing a fluid to escape |
burning
combustion | the act of burning something, the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance |
release
outlet
vent | activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion, she had no other outlet for her feelings, he gave vent to his anger |
| 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 |
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 |
| gas heat | heating system that burns natural gas |
| heat engine | any engine that makes use of heat to do work |
| heat exchanger | device that transfers heat from one liquid to another without allowing them to mix |
heating system
heating plant
heating
heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
heat lamp
infrared lamp | electric heater consisting of a high-power incandescent lamp that emits infrared radiation, the bathroom could be warmed by an infrared lamp |
| heat pump | apparatus that extracts heat from a liquid that is at a higher temperature than its surroundings, can be used to transfer heat from a reservoir outside in order to heat a building |
| heat-seeking missile | a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine) |
| heat shield | a protective covering that protects a spacecraft from overheating on reentry |
| heat sink | a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat |
| 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 |
| presence chamber | room in which a monarch or other great person receives guests, assemblies, etc. |
| release | merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film), a new release from the London Symphony Orchestra |
| release button | a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism |
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 |
steam heat
steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |
| 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 |
| heat warmth passion | the trait of being intensely emotional |
heat content
total heat
enthalpy
H | (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure, enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work |
body temperature
blood heat | temperature of the body, normally . F or C in humans, usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health |
hotness
heat high temperature | the presence of heat |
fieriness
red heat | the heat or the color of fire |
| white heat | the hotness of something heated until it turns white |
| pace rate | the relative speed of progress or change, he lived at a fast pace, he works at a great rate, the pace of events accelerated |
thermal barrier
heat barrier | a limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating |