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  • noun Plural form of damper.

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Examples

  • Also, the hydraulic pump that supports the dampers is the same pump that supports the electro-hydraulic steering system.

    Jalopnik: Top 2009

  • Next day these much-tried men had to wade three times through the river, mostly with their boots and putties on, so that though short of bread and biscuit they were well supplied with "dampers," unfortunately of a sort that soaked but never satisfied.

    With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

  • He gives a description of how they made the maize into bread (or rather "dampers", "ashcakes"); but as this is not altogether clear, it is better to combine it with Champlain's description, written a good many years later, but still at a time when the Hurons were unaffected by the white man's civilization.

    Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

  • I assure you, the sight of her smooth, smiling woman's face when we return home at nightfall, and the very flow of her gown as she turns the "dampers"

    The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I assure you, the sight of her smooth, smiling woman's face when we return home at nightfall, and the very flow of her gown as she turns the "dampers"

    The Caxtons — Volume 17 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Like the Corvette ZR1 and the CTS-V Coupe, the wagon is set up on magnetorheological dampers, which use micro-metallic particles in the dampers to vary viscosity according to the car's dynamic sensors.

    Cadillac's Insane, Unnecessary, Awesome Wagon Dan Neil 2011

  • Cadillac And like the Corvette ZR1 and the CTS-V Coupe, the wagon is set up on magnetorheological dampers, which use micro-metallic particles in the dampers to vary viscosity according to the car's dynamic sensors.

    An Insane, Unnecessary, Awesome Wagon 2011

  • Kozel yelled, and the shuttle decelerated rapidly, for a moment overpowering the inertial dampers.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Most skyscrapers utilize pendulums or dampers, designed to transfer the motion of the building to mitigation devices.

    Skyscraper, Moneymaker Ron Gluckman 2011

  • Let's say you bought this car, a Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon, with a 6.2-liter, 556-horsepower Corvette V8, six-speed manual transmission, magnetorheological dampers I'll get to that, Michelin SP2 gumballs, 15-inch front Brembo brakes with six-pot calipers, and microsuede wrapping on the steering wheel and shifter.

    Cadillac's Insane, Unnecessary, Awesome Wagon Dan Neil 2011

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