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chamber 1. a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc. 2. a. a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly b. any of the houses of a legislature 3. the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc. 4. Obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc., was stored; treasury chamber [′chām·bər] (civil engineering) The space in a canal lock between the upper and lower gates. (graphic arts) A sleeve or channel of a transparent film jacket. (mining engineering) The working place of a miner. A body of ore with definite boundaries apparently filling a preexisting cavern. (ordnance) The part of the gun in which the charge is placed: in a revolver, the hole in the cylinder; in a cannon, the space between the obturator or breechblock and the forcing cone. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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