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CHAMBERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English architect (1723-1796)
Synonyms:
Chambers; Sir William Chambers; William Chambers
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))
Context examples:
The researchers used gas chambers placed around tree trunks to estimate fluctuations in emissions at a small scale.
(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)
They showed those lichens can also survive and even grow in Mars simulation chambers.
(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)
The researchers designed tiny microfluidic chambers and placed evenly distributed square and round obstacles in them.
(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)
The device consists of a semi-permeable membrane between two tiny chambers, one filled with maternal cells derived from a delivered placenta and the other filled with fetal cells derived from an umbilical cord.
(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)
Several individual experiments, such as fumigating forests with elevated levels of carbon dioxide and growing plants in gas-filled chambers, have provided critical data but no definitive answer globally.
(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The X-ray examination of the blood vessels or chambers of the heart.
(Angiography, NCI Thesaurus)
Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body, especially one of the upper chambers of the heart.
(Atrial, NCI Thesaurus)
Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter-dish or in even less desirable places.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The clear, watery fluid which fills the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye.
(Aqueous Humor, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The watery fluid which is present in the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye.
(Aqueous Humor, NCI Thesaurus)
