What is "dampers"

Usage examples of "dampers".

These people may have some trouble with their forcefields, but the technology dampers they're tied to are something else again.

The enemy, whose weapons failed to work in range of the dampers, attacked with bayonets, and used guns, shovels, and picks in the manner of clubs and battle axes.

A quick look at Dyan, and in spite of the telepathic dampers he picked up the thought, you see, Regis, I promised you the Domain should not go unchallenged, and now I have confused them with not one claimant but two.

Within seconds after Hastur called a recess, they were all around me, and despite the telepathic dampers, the blend of curiosity, horror, shock—malice from somewhere—was more than I could take.

For once in my life I was glad of the telepathic dampers, which lessened the jangle in my head to a manageable ache.

Despite the telepathic dampers, I had no trouble in following the general import of what Gabriel said: that if Merryl didn’t sit down and shut up, he would have him carried out by force.

He turned to look at Lew, and saw, as Callina Aillard rose to answer for her Domain, that Lew was watching her intently, so intently that it seemed, even through the thick disturbance of the telepathic dampers in the Crystal Chamber, that for an instant he could read Lew’s thoughts.

For once in my life I was grateful for the presence of the telepathic dampers without which all this would have blasted through the room with the full force of the hyper-developed Alton rapport—but I said doggedly, “Your life is mine.

There were telepathic dampers all over the room, but still it seemed that I could read her thoughts.

What frightens me, now, is the fact that you could do that, with dampers all over the room.

I could feel his fear, mounting almost to panic, rising as the dampers were no longer there to interfere with telepathic contact.

It was warm, and I pulled off my cloak and let the heat soak into my chilled body and aching arm, while Callina moved softly around the laboratory, adjusting specially modulated dampers, and finally gestured to the wide, shimmering glass panel, whose depths made me think of the blue-ice room of Ashara.

If they don't have inertial dampers, they'll be pounded to mush against their bulkheads.

Then I pushed the thrust dampers to takeoff power and the Starfury bellowed forward along the canal.

I eased the thrust dampers fully forward, and the Starfury responded like the thoroughbred she was—with a hefty kick in the seat back.