Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. a sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas
WordNet
n. instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals [syn: death chamber]
Wikipedia
A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced. The most commonly used poisonous agent is hydrogen cyanide; carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide have also been used. Gas chambers were used as a method of execution for condemned prisoners in the United States beginning in the 1920s and continues to be a legal execution method in three states. During the Holocaust, large-scale gas chambers designed for mass killing were used by Nazi Germany as part of their genocide program, and also by the Independent State of Croatia at the Jasenovac concentration camp. The use of gas chambers in North Korea has also been reported.
Gas chamber may refer to a means of execution wherein a poisonous gas is introduced into a hermetically sealed chamber, to kill animals and humans.
Gas chamber may also refer to:
Gas Chamber is the debut album of American rapper C-Bo, released in 1993 on AWOL Records. It peaked at number 53 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The album was produced entirely by Mike Mosley and Sam Bostic. One single was released, "Liquor Sto'".
West Coast Mafia Records, C-Bo's own label, reissued Gas Chamber in 2003.
Usage examples of "gas chamber".
He knew full well doctors weren't shot or sent to the gas chamber.
Now, at the time, we did not have a gas chamber anywhere in the Philippines.
Do you have any idea what is involved in constructing a proper gas chamber?
It turned out to be a blimp, its large gas chamber giving it buoyancy to enable it to hover without sending down a blast of air that would flatten the growing grain.
One of them was in the light diver's costume Bert had already seen in the gas chamber turret, and he was moved to walk along and look at this person more closely and examine the helmet he carried under his arm.
His biggest lie: he didn't tell her that he'd fmally stepped in shit that didn't turn to clover, that he'd played an angle that played him back to the gas chamber door, that his home-to-Narco ticket read adios, lovebirds-- because she'd trace 10/24/47 to all his other lies and his carefully constructed nice-guy Big V would go down in flames.
It was this farmer’s description that later led to Fearn’s arrest, and to his execution in the gas chamber.
What made Carmine hate the men who had perished in their custom-made gas chamber was easy to see.
Even a kidnapper facing the gas chamber could hope his sentence would be commuted.
It reminded Carson of what he imagined a gas chamber to look like.
The Red Cross must ultimately see the obvious, that a man on death row could donate five quarts of blood as easily as he faces the gas chamber.