What's the difference between damper and pianoforte?

Damper


Definition:

  • (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.

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