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/ɛr tʃˈeɪmbər/ Listen

noun

Air chamber n.

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Air chamber" Quotes from Famous Books

... 97 gives a sectional view of the engine. The place of what would be the boiler in a steam-engine of similar shape is taken by an air chamber immediately above the lamp, and above that is a chamber through which cold water circulates. In what we will call the heating chamber a large piston, known as the displacer, is moved up and down by a rod D and a connecting ...

— Things To Make • Archibald Williams

... execution. They suffered death with constancy, and Maximus soon underwent the same fate. Nor was Cecilia long spared. The prefect ordered that she should be put to death in her own house, by being stifled in the caldarium, or hot-air chamber of her baths. The order was obeyed, and Cecilia entered the place of death; but a heavenly air and cooling dews filled the chamber, and the fire built up around it produced no effect. For a whole ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various

... combination, with the furnace and roasting vessel, of the air space, or chamber, surrounding it, "the same being for the purpose of preventing the too rapid escape of heat from the furnace when the air chamber's induction and eduction air openings ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... room, and suppose on one side a current of outdoor air which has been warmed by passing through the air chamber of a modern furnace. Its temperature need not be above sixty-five,—it answers breathing purposes better at that. On the other side of the room let there be an open wood or coal fire. One cannot conceive the purposes of warmth and ventilation more ...

— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe