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1chamber music — music suited for performance in a room or a small concert hall, esp. for two or more, but usually fewer than ten, solo instruments. [1780 90] * * * Music composed for small instrumental ensembles and performed without a conductor. Traditionally… …
2Chamber music — For other uses, see Chamber music (disambiguation). Frederick the Great plays a flute concert in his summer palace Sanssouci; painting by Adolph Menzel Chamber music is a form o …
3Electromagnetic reverberation chamber — A look inside the (large) Reverberation Chamber at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. On the left side is the vertical Mode Stirrer (or Tuner), that changes the electromagnetic boundaries to ensure a (statistically) homogeneous… …
4Steam whistle — A steam whistle is a device used to produce sound with the aid of live steam. Unlike a horn, the sounding mechanism of a whistle contains no moving parts (compare to train horn).The whistle consists of the following main parts, as seen on the… …
5Ammonium perchlorate composite propellant — (APCP) is a modern solid rocket propellant used in both manned and unmanned rocket vehicles. It differs from many traditional solid rocket propellants such as black powder or Zinc Sulfur, not only in chemical composition and overall performance,… …
6Hydropneumatic device — North American, European, and other languages refer to hydropneumatic devices such as a hydropneumatic accumulator or pulsation damper using very different words. In many cases this can cause a great deal of word usage confusion. This article… …
7Walther PP — Infobox Weapon name=Walther PP caption=Walther PP origin=flag|Weimar Republic type=Semi automatic pistol is ranged=yes service=1935 used by=Nazi Germany wars=World War II designer=Carl Walther Waffenfabrik design date=1929 manufacturer=Carl… …
8arts, East Asian — Introduction music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature. Some studies of East Asia… …
9performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
10reptile — reptilelike, adj. reptiloid /rep tl oyd /, adj. /rep til, tuyl/, n. 1. any cold blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the… …
