Damping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DAMPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make (something) slightly wet
• make a fire burn less strongly by reducing the flow of air to it
• control or restrain a feeling or a situation
• reduce or stop the vibration of (the strings of a piano or other musical instrument) so as to reduce the volume of sound
• progressively reduce the amplitude of (an oscillation or vibration)
NOUN:
• the ability of a device to prevent instability
• moisture diffused through the air or a solid substance or condensed on a surface, typically with detrimental or unpleasant effects
• damp air or atmosphere
• a discouragement or check
• moistening or wetting
ADJECTIVE:
• slightly wet
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lessen in intensity

Words related to DAMPING

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Words that contain DAMPING

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How to use DAMPING in a sentence

• Besides, they proved very useful in damping young men.
• At the approach of cold weather they may be taken up and potted off, using small pots to prevent them damping off.
• As far as possible more damping was used at the other end of the tube, but this had to depend on the voices of the subjects.
• Every morning the plants will require spraying, but this must never be done at night or damping off may follow.
• This boiler supplies the steam not only for the engine, but also for heating and damping the seed in the kettle.
• The older processes required a careful damping of the ore, which, to get good results, must leave the ore neither too wet nor too dry.
• Cecil, however, was determined to resist the damping influence as long as she could.
• But this is a mode of solution which, if generally adopted, would become an insuperable bar to all progress in natural knowledge by damping curiosity and restraining research.
• There is nothing so damping to the ardor of youthful economies as the hard, positive logic of figures.
• Rain, thunder, and lightning, should they befall, have no effect in damping the general enjoyment or preventing its continuance till after the sun has set.
• Against the rear face of the diaphragm of this transmitter there rest two damping springs.
• The damping springs are prevented from coming into actual contact with the diaphragm by small insulating pads.
• The purpose of the damping springs is to reduce the sensitiveness of the diaphragm to extraneous sounds.
• This transmitter is provided with damping springs similar to those of the White instrument.
• In all the transmitters so far discussed damping springs of one form or another have been employed to reduce the sensitiveness of the instrument.

Similar words containing DAMP without suffix ing

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