Damper vs Amper - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between damper and amper

is that damper is something that damps or checks: while amper is ampere (unit of electrical current).

is (damp).

(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

(head)

(damp)

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(en noun)

A tumour, often accompanied by inflammation; pustule; varicose vein; pus; atter.

A defect or flaw, especially in cloth.

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