air chamber

noun

a chamber containing air, as in a pump, lifeboat, or organic body.
Also called air cushion. a compartment of a hydraulic system containing air that by its elasticity equalizes the pressure and flow of liquid within the system.

First recorded in 1840–50

The air chamber surrounds the metering valve, and there is a mixing chamber above.

If the contents appear cloudy and the air chamber larger, the egg is not fresh.

If this pump is properly connected with an air chamber, as explained later, it will send a small stream of water some ten feet.

Then, with a rather clumsy and yet eloquent gesture, he showed her the way down to the air-chamber.

The Doctor and Will together had devised a most ingenious method of heating the hot-air chamber instantly.

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