Meaning | A natural or artificial enclosed space. |
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Narrower | airlock, air lock | A chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure |
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bomb shelter, air-raid shelter, bombproof | A chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing / bombing and provided with food and living facilities |
burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture | A chamber that is used as a grave |
caisson, pneumatic caisson, cofferdam | large watertight chamber used for construction under water |
camera obscura | A darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface |
core | The chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place |
cylinder, piston chamber | A chamber within which piston moves |
firing chamber, gun chamber | chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge |
furnace | An enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. |
hyperbaric chamber | A large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere |
particle detector | A chamber in which particles can be made visible |
resonator, cavity resonator, resonating chamber | A hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves |
steam chest | The chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder |
stokehold, stokehole, fireroom | (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired |
stuffing box, packing box | A small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal |
tokamak | A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research |
vacuum chamber | A chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed |
Broader | enclosure | A structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed / enclosed for some purpose |
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Spanish | cámara |
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Catalan | cambra |
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Verbs | chamber | place in a chamber |
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