Chamber

Chamber may refer to:

  • Chamber (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero associated with the X-Men
  • Chamber (firearms), the portion of the barrel or firing cylinder in which the cartridge is inserted prior to being fired
  • Chambers (law), the rooms used by a barrister or to an association of barristers
  • A room inside a building
  • Great Chamber, the second most important room in a medieval or Tudor English castle, palace, mansion or manor house
  • Chambar, a town in Pakistan also spelt Chamber
  • Environment chamber used in testing
  • Chamber (TempTale), a USB Interface Plus Reader

It may also refer to:

  • Chambers of commerce, a business network with local, regional, national, international and bi-lateral Chambers
  • List of employer associations and other business organizations
  • Chambers of parliament, in politics
  • Chamber music, a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber
  • Combustion chamber, part of an engine in which fuel is burned

The Chamber may also refer to:

  • The Chamber (game show), a short-lived game show on FOX
  • The Chamber (novel), a suspense novel by John Grisham
    • The Chamber (film), based on the novel

Other articles related to "chambers, chamber":

Temple Mount - Current Features
... built in different periods by different architects, ranging from vaulted chambers built in the gap between the bedrock and the platform, to chambers cut into the bedrock itself ... under the south eastern corner of the upper platform) — a long and narrow chamber, with a strange anti-clockwise curved section at its north western corner ... cavern, the roof supported by pillars carved from the rock the chamber is particularly cave-like and atmospheric, and its maximum water capacity is several ...

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    “The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.”
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