(n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
Example Sentences:
(1) It will involve fitting a pair of X-shaped braces under each of the structural bays under the bridge, along with 37 viscous dampers (the kind of large shock-absorbers you might find on a truck), and another 50 tuned mass dampers.
(2) Bearing and raising children often puts a damper on women's employment opportunities.
(3) So it's not just damper up here but more decorous, too.
(4) Springs and dampers are used to model the joint forces and moments.
(5) Then they get the opportunity to make some tasty foods including wattleseed damper, kangaroo kebabs or sample lemon myrtle biscuits.
(6) Negative events have small effects on these outcomes, sometimes acting as triggers, but sometimes as dampers.
(7) Simulation of muscular contraction, using a spring-damper arrangement, improved the results significantly.
(8) This behaviour eventually dampers out to yield a steady state situation when the amount of cell proliferation is exactly balanced by the decomposition of cells in the necrotic core.
(9) Hope that doesn’t put a damper on your school thing!” Everything is a reminder.
(10) The forces and torques transmitted between the masses, and the energy dissipated by the dampers were computed for several combinations of exciter frequencies and accelerations.
(11) At frequencies above 100 Hz the energy was dissipated mainly by the dampers between the masses near to the exciter.
(12) Dampered external osteosynthesis in the treatment of open comminuted fractures of the bones of the crus reduced the mean periods of in-patient treatment and consolidation of the fractures by 27-34.
(13) Heavy snow and bad weather conditions usually put a damper on fighting during the harsh Afghan winter.
(14) Jackets and boots, try to buy Gore-Tex.” The rise of violent infighting among jihadist factions in early 2013 and the subsequent disavowal of Isis by al-Qaida put a significant damper on the five-star jihad.
(15) It is shown that orthophosphate acts as a damper of the regulatory effect of fructose bisphosphate on the interaction between aldolase and microfilaments.
(16) On the basis of Lagrange's virtual work principle the nonlinear static and dynamic equations of motion for a sagitally symmetrical spine model of comprising rigid bodies, springs, beams and dampers are derived.
(17) It acts as a damper against the contractions of the heart or the pressure of occluding pharyngeal teeth, and it provides the mouth region of bottom-dwelling, algal eaters with flexible support.
(18) However, high death losses resulting from diarrhea in artificially reared piglets have dampered enthusiasm for early weaning.
(19) The connective tissues are modeled by springs and dampers.
(20) But it didn’t put a damper on Jenkins’ enthusiasm: “Just the fact of casting a vote for a woman president, whether she wins or not, is so extraordinary.
Pianoforte
Definition:
(a.) A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.