Crossword clues for dampener
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1857, agent noun from dampen.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device that moistens or dampens something. 2 (context figurative English) A discouraging event or remark.
WordNet
n. a device that dampens or moistens something; "he used a dampener to moisten the shirts before he ironed them" [syn: moistener]
Usage examples of "dampener".
Warp power can be restored, but with their warp dampener, we will not be able to create a subspace field.
The radiation level is declining, but in response the dampener is not allowing us to maintain warp speed.
Charging around the console to reach the empty conn, even as the bridge tilted in the lag of the inertial dampeners and the Voyager began her suicidal run, just as Janeway had intended.
In the glowing basin field dampeners were slowly compressing the amorphous energy bubble into a corridor of coherent imagery.
The dampeners pressed in on the conduit of plasma, narrowing its diameter, narrowing their view of the launch dome that now lay at its other end point.
When he first reported aboard Columbia, the arresting gear chief had impressed Johnny with a story about an anchor dampener that sheared its restraining nut during an arrestment.
As a result of this little story, Johnny Arbogast developed a habit of running his eyes over the anchor dampeners after each arrestment.
Despite the violence and power of the pulverizer, active noise dampeners shielded the machine from its own power, reducing the sound to a low rumble, and incidentally keeping the crew from going deaf.