| 单词 | damper |
| 释义 | damper /dam"peuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that damps or depresses: His glum mood put a damper on their party. 2. a movable plate for regulating the draft in a stove, furnace, etc. 3. Music. a. a device in stringed keyboard instruments to deaden the vibration of the strings. b. the mute of a brass instrument, as a horn. 4. Elect. an attachment to keep the indicator of a measuring instrument from oscillating excessively, as a set of vanes in a fluid or a short-circuited winding in a magnetic field. 5. Mach. a shock absorber. 6. Australian. a. a round, flat cake made of flour and water, and cooked over a campfire. b. the dough for such cakes. [1740-50; DAMP + -ER1] |
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