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chamber

1. a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc.

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.

chamber

1. A room used for private living, conversation, consultation, or deliberation, in contrast to more public and formal activities. Also see bedroom, boudoir, cabinet, closet, den, parlor, solar, study.

2. A room for such use which has acquired public importance, e.g., the senate chamber, an audience chamber.

3. (Brit., pl.) A suite of rooms for private dwelling.

4. (pl.) A suite of rooms for deliberation and consultation (juristic).

5. A space equipped or designed for a special function, mechanical or technological, e.g., a torture chamber, a combustion chamber.

Chamber

(or breast), in mining, a relatively short mine working with a large cross section. The dimensions and the characteristics of location, construction, and operation of chambers are determined by their purpose.

The term “chamber” includes workings used for the place-ment of equipment and special shaft or mine services (an under-ground electric power substation, pumphouse, catch basin, electric locomotive depot, control room, medical station, orwaiting room), excavations for the mining of minerals by theunderground method, and special-purpose underground structures (underground engine rooms of hydroelectric power plants; subway concourses).

Chamber

(1) The name of representative bodies or constituent parts thereof. For example, in the USSR the Supreme Soviet of the USSR consists of two equal chambers, the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities.

(2) The name of certain state or public organizations and establishments—for example, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Book Chamber.

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No references found	Taylor, Analysis of diaphragm system for the x-ray standard ionization chamber, Radiology 15, 49-65 (1930). New national air-kerma-strength standards for [.sup.125]I and ... by Coursey, Bert M. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology	standard form standard free-energy increase Standard Fuel standard function standard gage standard gauge Standard Generalised Markup Language Standard Generalized Markup Language standard gold Standard Grade standard gravity standard heat of formation standard hole standard hook standard hour standard I/O standard illuminants standard inductor standard input standard input/output standard inside diameter dimension ratio Standard Instrument Control Library standard interface Standard International units standard interpretation standard ionization chamber standard knot standard leak standard lens Standard Lisp Standard Load standard loran standard mapping standard mean ocean water standard measure standard meridian Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area Smsa standard mineral Standard ML Standard ML of New Jersey Standard Mode standard model standard noise temperature standard noon Standard of Living Standard of Prices Standard Oil Company and Trust Standard Operating Environment standard output standard parallel standard parallel port	Standard Intel Architecture Servers Standard INter-program Bundle of Associated Data Standard Interchange Facilities Standard Interchange Format Standard Interchange Language Standard Interchange Protocol Standard Interconnect Performance Parameter Standard Interface Standard Interface Standard Interface Connector Standard Interface Control Library Standard Interface Document Standard Interface for Multiple Platform Link Evaluation Standard Interface Panel Standard Interface Specification Standard Interline Passenger Procedures Standard Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis standard international (SI) units standard international (SI) units standard international (SI) units standard international (SI) units Standard International Classification of Tourism Activities Standard International Industrial Classification Standard International Trade Classification Standard International units Standard International units Standard International units Standard Interoperable Datalink System standard interpretation Standard Inventory Number standard ionization chamber Standard Iron Bar Standard Iterative Interference Canceller Standard Jig Boring Service Standard Job Procedure Standard K-Epsilon Standard Key Coding System Standard Key Management Module standard knot Standard Korean Alphabet Transliteration System Standard Label Standard Labelled Road Network Standard Labor Data Collection And Distribution Application Standard Laboratories Round Robin Standard Laboratory Module standard lamp standard lamps Standard Land Use Coding Manual Standard Landing Craft Unit Standard language Standard Language Test of Aphasia Standard Laryngeal Mask Airway Standard Launch Vehicle standard lead Standard Lead Time

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Taylor, Analysis of diaphragm system for the x-ray standard ionization chamber, Radiology 15, 49-65 (1930).

New national air-kerma-strength standards for [.sup.125]I and ... by Coursey, Bert M. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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