What is "dampening"

Usage examples of "dampening".

It’s sort of riding piggyback on whatever’s dampening the planet’s magnetic fields.

Jewlan had a niggling suspicion that by entering the wrong combination she’d inadvertently triggered some sort of protective dampening field.

At least with powered weapons—but to throw up a planetwide dampening field?

It’s so obvious—I mean, even Starfleet Academy has dampening fields on campus, for the students’ protection.

But what I said about the dampening field—Bart, that’s Jolen’s field of expertise, not mine.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought of a planetwide dampening field that irked him.

Tev suspected the dampening field keeping things running at a minimum had to be because of a fault in the Asarion’s system and not that of an exterior caustic anomaly.

Did Tev tell you this dampening field, or whatever it is, runs in pulses, very much like small EMP bursts?

If I—we—can’t find the source of the field, perhaps we can damage a sensor or rewrite its prime directive to shut down the dampening field instead of empower it.

We’ve already proven no matter what we do to get the fusion reactor going that dampening field is going to just zap it back out.

A quick study of the door and the inset symbols and Bart recognized the same code that opened the Second Chamber, where the shutoff for the dampening field had been.

Ivy was hunched and holding her bleeding arm, tears dampening her cheeks with desperate sorrow.

I know you have the inertia dampening curse in one of the books with you, but I don’t want you to translate the Latin wrong.

You can restore power with the dampening process in effect by using matter/antimatter intermix settings previously calculated.

The white plank of energy bent back on itself and bounced within the shield globe, filling the subspace dampening cocoon Voyager had woven around the Gimlon supership.