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chamber
has definitions from the fields of housing,anatomy,zoology,politics
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[ noun ] a natural or artificial enclosed space
Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Dr._H._V._Hilprecht , Professor of Assyrian at the University_of_Pennsylvania , dreamed that a Babylonian priest , associated with the king Kurigalzu , ( 1300 B.C. . ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel , gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic , and corrected an error in its identification . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)A plug and a tube with holes in its cylindrical walls divided the chamber above the porous plug into two parts . (M. Yokoyama et al., "Chemical and serological...)When paper_electrophoresis was to be used for preparation , eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run / chamber under the conditions described above . At the end of the run , the strips in the third and sixth positions in each chamber were dried , stained for 1 hr , washed and dried , while the other strips were maintained in a horizontal position at 1 ` C . (A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)Some of them were then covered with a drop of * * f in a moist chamber at 24 ` for 30 - 40 minutes . |
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[ verb ] (housing) place in a chamber
Used in print (Larry Koller, "The New Guns of '61"...)The_most intriguing aspect of the S + W Magnum chambered for the new Jet is that it can also fire standard .22 rim-fires by means of adapter sleeves in the chambers . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology) an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart)
Used in print (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)The original electrocardiograph primarily indicates irregularities in the heartbeat , but today 's techniques allow exact measurements of the flow of blood through the aorta , dimensioning of the heart and its chambers , and a much more detailed study of each heartbeat . |
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[ noun ] (politics) a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
Examples "the upper chamber is the senate" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 14956
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[ noun ] (housing) a room used primarily for sleeping
Synonyms Related terms room master_bedroom child's_room guestroom boudoir hotel_room motel_room dormitory dwelling |
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