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door closer

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door closer [′dȯr ‚klōz·ər]
(design engineering)
A device that makes use of a spring for closing, and a compression chamber from which liquid or air escapes slowly, to close a door at a controlled speed. Also known as door check.
In elevators, a device or assembly of devices which closes an open car or hoistway door by the use of gravity or springs.


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He was a door opener, not a door closer," said Bishop Sartison, who urged Anglicans to be a church that opens doors.
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A better mannered alternative is a hydraulic door closer, which, once she is enrolled in the network and so long as she is untiring and does her delegated job well, maintains the door-wall system, and secures the enclosed conference against the cold.
 
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