What's the difference between chamber and chamfer?

Chamber


Definition:

  • (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
  • (n.) Apartments in a lodging house.
  • (n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
  • (n.) A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
  • (n.) A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.
  • (n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
  • (n.) A chamber pot.
  • (n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
  • (n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
  • (n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
  • (v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
  • (v. i.) To be lascivious.
  • (v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (2) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (3) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
  • (4) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (5) and then placed in the chamber containing a CO atmosphere (0.325-0.375%).
  • (6) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
  • (7) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (8) The compatibility with Gentamycin solution used for irrigation of the anterior chamber of the eye was studied in experiments performed on rabbits.
  • (9) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.
  • (10) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
  • (11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (12) The so-called apparent accommodation has been measured in patients implanted with anterior chamber, iris support and posterior chamber IOLs.
  • (13) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
  • (14) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
  • (15) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
  • (16) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
  • (17) The energy required for perforation from the external surface to the anterior chamber was the same as the energy required for ab interno perforation.
  • (18) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
  • (19) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
  • (20) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.

Chamfer


Definition:

  • (n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
  • (v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
  • (v. t.) To make a chamfer on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Somehow, everything we produced had a decidedly 1970s feel, a look formed by both the number of chamfered blocks in the set, and the inescapable desire to make everything symmetrical as you stack floor upon floor.
  • (2) Although the dentin bonding agents tend to accumulate on chamfers, thereby increasing their thickness to 200-300 microns, the method looks promising as a simple way to protect the pulp from the consequences of microleakage.
  • (3) A chamfer with a bevel, a shoulder with a bevel, or chamfer preparations are not suited to this technique.
  • (4) The crown margin designs taught most often were the flat shoulder, the 45-degree bevel shoulder, and the chamfer.
  • (5) This study evaluated chamfered and beveled preparations for Class IV restorations of lesions with microfilled and macrofilled composite resin.
  • (6) Serial radiographic analyses demonstrate progressive narrowing of all of the chamfered cylinder design and less in hemispherical design with screw fixation.
  • (7) This study tested three different types of crown margin preparations--a chamfer, a shoulder, and a shoulder plus a bevel to determine whether or not the margin preparation could affect microleakage.
  • (8) Facial and lingual chamfer margins were placed in enamel, mesial and distal in dentin and cementum, and castings were made in Rexillium III alloy and were then cemented with a standardized technique.
  • (9) This study indicated that the resin bonded cast fixed partial denture with the lingual chamfer margin and mesial rest was the design to be chosen.
  • (10) Group I consisted of 43 restorations placed without any tooth preparation; Group II consisted of 72 restorations placed using a chamfer preparation.
  • (11) The margin designs were rounded-shoulder, rounded-shoulder with a bevel, and a chamfer.
  • (12) On the acetabular side, both the cementless hemispherical with screw-type adjuvant fixation, or the chamfered cylinder designs, used primarily with the UCLA porous surface replacements, but also with stem-type devices, appear to achieve best short-term results, while the entire variety of screw rings are disappointing.
  • (13) With 76 different types of Lego bricks scattered across the table, from flat baseplates to chamfered wedge-shaped blocks and lots of tiny pieces with nipples and sockets sprouting in all directions, the challenge was to know where to begin.
  • (14) These included the use of thin metal copings (0.1 and 0.2 mm), a chamfer preparation, an alloy with relatively poor creep resistance, and a large thermal contraction mismatch between the alloy and porcelain layers.
  • (15) The accepted marginal design indicated by manufacturers for ceramic jacket crowns is the 90 degrees full shoulder with a rounded gingival-axial line angle or a deep chamfer.
  • (16) The weakest restorations were observed when a 0.8-mm chamfer finish line (66.8 kg) was used.
  • (17) Seventy extracted intact, non-carious maxillary central incisors, of approximately the same size, were collected and randomly divided into the following seven groups: 90 degrees butt joint (control)), 1 and 2 mm 45 degrees bevels, 1 and 2 mm 60 degrees bevels, and 1 and 2 mm chamfer margins.
  • (18) There was no significant difference in marginal fit between the shoulder and the chamfer configuration in every luting material examined.
  • (19) The coping and crown dimensions were based on a prepared maxillary central incisor with a facial shoulder and a lingual chamfer.
  • (20) The experiments were conducted in the following manner: Ten pieces of full cast crowns were constructed by a conventional procedure with 12% Au-Ag-Pd alloy and each test-piece was cemented alternately by zinc phosphate cement on a master die (stainless steel) with a chamfer margin.