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Baffle
Baffle Baf"fle, n.
1. (Engin.)
(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; -- used in measuring the rate of flow,
as by means of a weir.
2. (Coal Mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of
a winding engine. [Local, U. S.]
Baffle
Baffle Baf"fle, v. i.
1. To practice deceit. [Obs.] --Barrow.
2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the
winds. [R.]
Baffle
Baffle Baf"fle, n.
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [R.]
``A baffle to philosophy.' --South.
Meaning of Baffle from wikipedia
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Baffle or
baffles may
refer to:
Baffle (liquid mixing),
auxiliary devices emplo**** in tank
which suppress...
- The
Baffler is an
American magazine of cultural, political, and
business analysis.
Established in 1988 by
editors Thomas Frank and
Keith White, it was...
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Baffles are flow-directing or
obstructing vanes or
panels used to
direct a flow of
liquid or gas. It is used in some
household stoves and in some industrial...
- An
optical baffle is an opto-mechanical
construction designed to
block light from a
source shining into the
front of an
optical system and
reaching the...
- A
slosh baffle is a
device used to
dampen the
adverse effects of
liquid slosh in a tank.
Slosh baffles have been
implemented in a
variety of applications...
- The
baffles is the area in the
water directly behind a
submarine or ship
through which a hull-mounted
sonar cannot hear. This
blind spot is
caused by...
- A
sound baffle is a
construction or
device which reduces the
strength (level) of
airborne sound.
Sound baffles are a
fundamental tool of
noise mitigation...
- A
baffle is a
surgically created tunnel or wall
within the
heart or
major blood vessels used to
redirect the flow of blood. They are used in some types...
-
Baffle Ball is a
pinball machine created on
November 19, 1931, by
David Gottlieb,
founder of the
Gottlieb amu****t company. For one US cent (equivalent...
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Baffle blocks are
concrete structures with
different shapes, for
example trapezoidal, used in
flowing water to
reduce its force.[citation needed] They...
