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firedamper

firedamper is the alternative form of fire damper.

Meaning of fire damper

Noun

fire damper (plural fire dampers)

  1. A passive fire protection product used in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning ducts.
  2. A damper which closes off an air duct automatically in the event of fire so as to restrict the passage of fire and smoke.
  3. (archaic, historical) A mine worker who detects and clears a mineshaft of firedamp by intentionally burning or blowing it up.
    • Jack is a former fire damper who was injured in an explosion.

Forms of firedamper

pluralfiredampers

Questions about firedamper

What is firedamper the alternative form of?
Firedamper is the alternative form of fire damper.

Words near firedamper in the dictionary

  1. fired on all cylinders
  2. fired out
  3. fired the starting gun
  4. fired up
  5. firedamp
  6. firedamper
  7. firedampers
  8. firedamps
  9. firedevil
  10. firedevils
  11. firedog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: firedamper (page history and authors); fire damper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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