Chamber or the chamber may refer to:
In government and organizations
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Chamber of commerce
A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network. For example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to ad ...
, an organization of business owners to promote commercial interests
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Legislative chamber
A legislative chamber or house is a deliberative assembly within a legislature which generally meets and votes separately from the legislature's other chambers. Legislatures are usually unicameral, consisting of only one chamber, or bicameral ...
, in politics
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Debate chamber
A debate chamber is a room for people to discuss and debate. Debate chambers are used in governmental and educational bodies, such as a parliament, congress, city council, or a university, either for formal proceedings or for informal discourse, ...
, the space or room that houses deliberative assemblies such as legislatures, parliaments, or councils.
In media and entertainment
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Chamber (comics)
Chamber (Jonothon Evan Starsmore) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually associated with the X-Men and the New Warriors.
A British mutant, Jono possessed the ability to cast energy b ...
, a Marvel Comics superhero associated with the X-Men
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Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...
, a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber
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''The Chamber'' (game show), a short-lived game show on FOX
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''The Chamber'' (novel), a suspense novel by John Grisham
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''The Chamber'' (1996 film), based on the novel
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''The Chamber'' (2016 film), a survival film directed by Ben Parker
* , a musical ensemble from Frankfurt, Germany-based around vocalist/guitarist Marcus Testory
Other
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Chamber (firearms)
In firearms, the chamber is the cavity at the back end of a breechloader's barrel or cylinder, where the cartridge is inserted before being fired. The rear opening of the chamber is the breech, and is sealed by the breechblock or the bolt.
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, the portion of the barrel or firing cylinder in which the cartridge is inserted prior to being fired
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room
In a building or large vehicle, like a ship, a room is any enclosed space within a number of walls to which entry is possible only via a door or other dividing structure that connects it to either a passage (architecture), passageway, another roo ...
inside a building
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Barristers' chambers
In law, a barrister's chambers or barristers' chambers are the rooms used by a barrister or a group of barristers. The singular refers to the use by a sole practitioner whereas the plural refers to a group of barristers who, while acting as sol ...
, the rooms used by a barrister or an association of barristers
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Great Chamber, the second most important room in a medieval or Tudor English castle, palace, mansion or manor house
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Combustion chamber
A combustion chamber is part of an internal combustion engine in which the fuel/air mix is burned. For steam engines, the term has also been used for an extension of the firebox which is used to allow a more complete combustion process.
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, part of an engine in which fuel is burned
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Environment chamber
An environmental chamber, also called a climatic chamber or climate chamber, is an enclosure used to test the effects of specified environmental conditions on biological items, industrial products, materials, and electronic devices and components ...
, used in testing environmental conditions
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Execution chamber
An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room or chamber in which capital punishment is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the walls of a maximum-security prison, although not always at the same prison where the death ro ...
, a place where capital punishment is carried out
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Gas chamber
A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced. Poisonous agents used include hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide.
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, execution method
See also
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Chambar, a town in Pakistan also spelled Chamber
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Chambers (disambiguation)
Chambers may refer to:
Places
Canada:
*Chambers Township, Ontario
United States:
*Chambers County, Alabama
*Chambers, Arizona, an unincorporated community in Apache County
*Chambers, Nebraska
* Chambers, West Virginia
*Chambers Township, Holt C ...
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