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cham·ber (ch

1. A room in a house, especially a bedroom.

2. A room where a person of authority, rank, or importance receives visitors.

3. chambers A room in which a judge may consult privately with attorneys or hear cases not taken into court.

4. chambers Chiefly British A suite of rooms, especially one used by lawyers.

5. A hall for the meetings of a legislative or other assembly.

6. A legislative or judicial body.

7. A board or council.

8. A place where municipal or state funds are received and held; a treasury.

a. An enclosed space or compartment: the chamber of a pump; a compression chamber.

b. An enclosed space in the body of an organism; a cavity: the four chambers of the heart.

10.

a. A compartment in a firearm, as in the breech of a rifle or the cylinder of a revolver, that holds the cartridge in readiness for firing.

b. An enclosed space in the bore of a gun that holds the charge.

tr.v. cham·bered, cham·ber·ing, cham·bers

1. To put in or as if in a chamber; enclose or confine.

2. To furnish with a chamber.

3. To design or manufacture (a firearm) to hold a specific type of cartridge.

[Middle English chaumbre, from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera, chamber, from Latin, vault, from Greek kamar.]

chamber

Noun

1. a meeting hall, usually one used for a legislative or judicial assembly

2. a room equipped for a particular purpose: a decompression chamber

3. a legislative or judicial assembly: the Senate, the upper chamber of Canada's parliament

4. Old-fashioned or poetic a room in a house, esp. a bedroom

5. a compartment or cavity: the heart chambers

6. a compartment for a cartridge or shell in a gun

See also chambers [Greek kamara vault]

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Noun	1.	chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space air lock, airlock - a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure air-raid shelter, bomb shelter, bombproof - a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture - a chamber that is used as a grave cofferdam, pneumatic caisson, caisson - large watertight chamber used for construction under water camera obscura - a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface core - the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place piston chamber, cylinder - a chamber within which piston moves enclosure - a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose firing chamber, gun chamber - chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. hyperbaric chamber - a large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere; used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning particle detector - a chamber in which particles can be made visible cavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonator - a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves steam chest - the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder fireroom, stokehold, stokehole - (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired packing box, stuffing box - a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal tokamak - a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle vacuum chamber - a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed
	2.	chamber - an enclosed volume in the body; "the chambers of his heart were healthy" bodily cavity, cavum, cavity - (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body heart ventricle, ventricle - a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries atrium - any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
	3.	chamber - a room where a judge transacts business diwan, divan - a Muslim council chamber or law court room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"
	4.	chamber - a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate" assembly - a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
	5.	chamber - a room used primarily for sleeping bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" boudoir - a lady's bedroom or private sitting room child's room - a bedroom for a child dorm room, dormitory room, dormitory - a large sleeping room containing several beds dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home, abode, domicile - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" guestroom - a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests hotel room - a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel master bedroom - the principal bedroom in a house; usually occupied by the head of the household motel room - a sleeping room in a motel room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"
Verb	1.	chamber - place in a chamber domiciliate, house, put up - provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"