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A chamber is an enclosed space, often where a specific event usually takes place — such as a sleeping chamber or a torture chamber.

The history of the word chamber is an interesting one. The Latin word for room was camera. The original word for camera was camera obscura, or "dark chamber," since it was a big black box. Now, the word chamber can refer to any enclosed space — such as the chamber of a gun or the four chambers of your heart.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: chamber

1	n v	a natural or artificial enclosed space place in a chamber
2	n	a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: chamber

n a natural or artificial enclosed space

Examples:: Holy Sepulcher
the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection; Mausoleum at Halicarnasus
a white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king; destroyed in 1402; Taj Mahal
beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife

Types:: show 41 types...; hide 41 types...; air lock, airlock
a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure; air-raid shelter, bomb shelter, bombproof
a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids; burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
a chamber that is used as a grave; caisson, cofferdam, pneumatic caisson
large watertight chamber used for construction under water; camera obscura
a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface; core
the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place; cylinder, piston chamber
a chamber within which piston moves; firing chamber, gun chamber
chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge; furnace
an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.; hyperbaric chamber
a large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere; used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning; particle detector
a chamber in which particles can be made visible; cavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonator
a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves; steam chest
the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder; fireroom, stokehold, stokehole
(nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired; packing box, stuffing box
a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal; tokamak
a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle; vacuum chamber
a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed; athanor
a furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature; used by alchemists; blast furnace
a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air; brake cylinder, hydraulic brake cylinder, master cylinder
a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston; bubble chamber
an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles; Wilson cloud chamber, cloud chamber
apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor; each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track; cremation chamber, crematorium, crematory
a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes; crypt
a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church); cupola
a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting; electric furnace
any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current; firebox
a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned; forge
furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping; gas furnace
a furnace that burns gas; incinerator
a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse); kiln
a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks; mausoleum
a large burial chamber, usually above ground; oil burner, oil furnace
a furnace that burns oil; open-hearth furnace
a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it; monument, repository
a burial vault (usually for some famous person); reverberatory furnace
a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace; body, soundbox
a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin); soundboard, sounding board
(music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument; spark chamber, spark counter
an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles; tank furnace
furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained; burial vault, vault
a burial chamber (usually underground)

Type of:: enclosure
a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose

n a room where a judge transacts business

Types:: divan, diwan
a Muslim council chamber or law court

Type of:: room
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling

n a room used primarily for sleeping

Synonyms:: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; boudoir
a lady's bedroom or private sitting room; child's room
a bedroom for a child; dorm room, dormitory, dormitory room
a large sleeping room containing several beds; guestroom
a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests; hotel room
a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel; master bedroom
the principal bedroom in a house; usually occupied by the head of the household; motel room
a sleeping room in a motel; adjoining room
a hotel room that shares a wall with another hotel room; connecting room
a hotel room that shares a wall with an adjoining room and is connected by a private door; baby's room, nursery
a child's room for a baby

Type of:: room
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling

n an enclosed volume in the body

“the chambers of his heart were healthy”

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; heart ventricle, ventricle
a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries; atrium
any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart); left ventricle
the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta; right ventricle
the chamber on the right side of the heart that receives venous blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the pulmonary trunk; atrium cordis, atrium of the heart
the upper chamber of each half of the heart

Type of:: bodily cavity, cavity, cavum
(anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body

v place in a chamber

Type of:: domiciliate, house, put up
provide housing for

n a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly

“the upper chamber is the senate”

Type of:: assembly
a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose

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