baffle-platen.
A plate hindering or regulating the passage of fluid through an outlet or inlet, or the direction of sound.
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1882 Nature 5 Jan. 220/1 A kind of baffle plate hung at the back of the grate.
1906 Daily Chron. 3 Mar. 3/6 A system of tubes or baffle-plates which break up the hot gas.
1920 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 767/1 [Gas] is passed upwards through water dripping from a series of baffle-plates in chambers known as scrubbers.
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baffle-plated adj. having a baffle-plate.
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1908 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 5/1 In this radiator the baffle plated hood replaces the frieze and trivet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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