What is "dampeners"

Usage examples of "dampeners".

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.