chamber [`chām·bǝr] CIVIL ENGINEERING The space in a canal lock between the upper and lower gates. GRAPHIC ARTS A sleeve or channel of a transparent film jacket. MINING ENGINEERING 1. The working place of a miner. 2. A body of ore with definite boundaries apparently filling a preexisting cavern. ORDNANCE The part of the gun in which the charge is placed: in a revolver, the hole in the cylinder; in a cannon, the space between the obturator or breechblock and the forcing cone. |