damper

1. 1.

   a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace

   Broaderplate

   Part ofchimney
2. 2.

   a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations

   Synonymsmuffler

   Broaderdevice

   Narrowerdamper blockdash-potshock absorber
3. 3.

   a depressing restraint

   “rain put a damper on our picnic plans”

   Broaderrestraint

Other forms of damper

plural

dampers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about damper

What does damper mean?

damper means "a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in damper?

damper has 2 syllables: dam-per. The stress falls on "dam". In IPA it is /ˈdæmpɚ/.

What is another word for damper?

Close synonyms include muffler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is damper a common word?

damper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.