Look up: baffle

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   Baffle
   A baffle is a rigid structure, such as a sheet of sound-insulating material, used to improve the distribution of sound waves.
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   Baffle
   A flat board or plate, deflector, guide, or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities to absorb energy and to divert, guide, or agitate liquids.
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   Baffle
   1) A wall of timber or board that separates sound sources such as speakers from surfaces that might reflect sound back and thus to cancel out the sound. 2) A metal plate or strip within a lantern that stops light exiting the lantern housing through openings other than the lens, usually the cooling vents.
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   baffle
   [n] - a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy 2. [v] - check the emission of (sound)
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   Baffle
   The part of a loudspeker enclosure on to which the drive units are fastened. Alternatively, a sound absorbent barrier used in recording studios to separate musicians who are recording in the same room (sometimes referred to as a 'gobo' in this sense). Hence a 'well baffled speaker' is not a speaker that is in a state of some confusion! but rather, ...
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   Baffle
   AcousticsA movable barrier used to achieve separation of signals from different sources.LoudspeakersThe surface or board upon which a loudspeaker is mounted.
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   Baffle
   A metal plate used between the cylinders of an air-cooled aero engine to guide the cooling air. Properly: 'inter-cylinder baffle'.
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   baffle
   a surface used for deflecting fluids Category: Mechanical engineering • a plate or wall for deflecting gases or other fluids as in a steam-boiler flue,a reverberatory furnace or a gasoline-engine muffler Category: Mechanical engineering • a cross wall,set of vanes or guides,a grid,grating or similar device placed in a conduit to check eddy currents below them,and to effect ...
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   Baffle
   A type of shield that prohibits light from entering an optical system.
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    Baffle
    Baf'fle (băf'f'l) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Baffled (-f'ld); present participle & verbal noun Baffling (-flĭng).] [ Confer Lowland Scotch bauchle to treat contemptuously, bauch tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icelandic bāgr uneasy, poor, or bāgr , noun , struggle,
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    Baffle
    Baf'fle intransitive verb 1. To practice deceit. [ Obsolete] Barrow. 2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. [ R.]
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    Baffle
    Baf'fle noun A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [ R.] 'A baffle to philosophy.' South.
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    Baffle
    Baf'fle noun 1. (Engineering) (a) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated. (b) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; - ...
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    baffle
    1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. 'He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see.' (Spenser) ... 2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. 'The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim.' (Cowper) ... 3. To check by perplexing; to disc ...
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    baffle
    baffle board noun a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
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    baffle
    verb check the emission of (sound)
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    Baffle
    `Baffle` can refer to: * Baffles (submarine) * Sound baffle * `Baffle gate`, which is a Turnstile * Baffle (game show), a 1973 TV game show that was a revival of the 1960s `PDQ` game show * All-Star Baffle, the 1974 version of the above game show, with a changed format. * Cylinder baffle, in air-cooled engines, one of a set of guides or barriers intended to keep cooling air in contact with cylinder finning.
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    Baffle
    • (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. • (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. • (v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. • (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. • (n.) A defeat by artifice, shi...
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    baffle
    (from the article `electromechanical transducer`) Loudspeakers are mounted in a box, horn, or other enclosure in order to separate the waves from the front and the rear of the loudspeaker and thereby ...
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    baffle
    (from the article `gasoline engine`) Mufflers of early design contained sets of baffles that reversed the flow of the gases or otherwise caused them to follow devious paths so that ...
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    Baffle
    A type of shield that prohibits light from entering an optical system
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    baffle
    A rigid or flexible barrier used to direct and control the flow of air
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    baffle
    A chamber sewn in an insulated garment or sleeping bag that keeps insulation from shifting and created cold spots. See loft.
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    Baffle
    A partition designed to control light, air, sound, or traffic flow.
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    Baffle
    A device to prevent direct fluid flow or impingement on a surface.
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