chamber

Noun
  1. A natural or artificial enclosed space (synset 103007334)
    is a type of: enclosure - a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
    subtypes:
    • 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
  2. An enclosed volume in the body (synset 105400087)
    "the chambers of his heart were healthy"
    is a type of: bodily cavity, cavity, cavum - (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body
    subtypes:
    • 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)
  3. A room where a judge transacts business (synset 103007750)
    is a type of: room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
    subtypes: divan, diwan - a Muslim council chamber or law court
  4. A deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly (synset 108335834)
    "the upper chamber is the senate"
    is a type of: assembly - a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
  5. A room used primarily for sleeping (synset 102824762)
    is a type of: room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
    subtypes:
    has: bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
    is a part of: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home - housing that someone is living in
    same as: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room
Verb
  1. Place in a chamber (synset 202662158)
    is a type of: domiciliate, house, put up - provide housing for

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