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damper

  • noun
  • dămp′ər

Something that damps or checks

Other meanings

  1. A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.

  2. A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.

A kind of

  • plate

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “damper” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.