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Definition chamber

Etymology

From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.

Noun

chamber (plural chambers)

1. A room or set of rooms, particularly:
   1. The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
   2. A bedroom.
   3. The private office of a judge.
   4. The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
   5. (Britain) A single law office in a building housing several.
   6. (dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.
2. One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
3. (obsolete) Clipping of chamber pot: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.
4. (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
5. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
6. (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
7. (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
8. (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.

Verb

chamber (third-person singular simple present chambers, present participle chambering, simple past and past participle chambered)

1. To enclose in a room.
2. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
3. To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
4. To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
5. In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
6. (obsolete) To be lascivious.

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