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damper | a |

As a noun damper

is something that damps or checks:.

As an adjective damper

is (damp).

As a letter a is

the letter a with a tilde.

damper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that damps or checks:
  • # A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
  • # A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
  • # Something that kills the mood.
  • #* (rfdate) W. Black
  • Nor did Sabrina?s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
  • # A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
  • (chiefly, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
  • * 1827, , Two Years in New South Wales'', ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, ''A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms , 1978, ISBN 0-424-00034-2,
    • The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers , and cook these in the ashes.
  • * (Rudyard Kipling), His Gift

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (damp)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    a

    Translingual

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) letter .

    Letter

  • The first letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script) *

    Symbol

    (head)
  • (Marks the first item in a list)
    • A . Go to the store. B. Get some food. C. Return home. D. Eat.
  • A hypothetical item or person designated first when there are more than one.
    • Person A had 5 apples, and person B...
  • The hexadecimal digit for 10
    • 0x0000000A
    The value is hexadecimal A 0, or decimal 160.
  • A standard size of dry cell battery slightly larger than a AA battery.
  • A system of paper sizes with similar proportions, as , etc.
    • See also
    * (previous) , (next) B

    Related terms

    (Letters sharing the same origin as "A") * Arabic * Coptic * Cyrillic * Devan?gari * Greek * Hebrew * Phoenician * Syriac

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of various terms.

    Symbol

    (head)
  • Symbol for the element Argon (Since 1956 has been changed to Ar).
  • area

    • Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • ampere, a unit of electrical current.
  • IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for adenine in genetic code.
  • IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for alanine in proteins.
  • Austria

    • See also

    {{Letter, page=A , NATO=Alpha , Morse=·– , Character=A1 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin A.png, Capital and lowercase versions of A , in normal and italic type File:Fraktur letter A.png, Uppercase and lowercase A in Fraktur File:UncialA-01.svg, A in uncial script

    External links

    * (wikipedia "A")

    References

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