Baffle or baffles may refer to:
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Baffle (liquid mixing)
A slosh baffle is a device used to dampen the adverse effects of liquid slosh in a tank. Slosh baffles have been implemented in a variety of applications including tanker trucks, and liquid rockets, although any moving tank containing liquid may ...
, auxiliary devices employed in tank which suppress the effects of slosh dynamics
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Baffle (heat transfer)
Baffles are flow-directing or obstructing vanes or panels used to direct a flow of liquid or gas. It is used in some household stoves and in some industrial process vessels (tanks), such as shell and tube heat exchangers, chemical reactors, and s ...
, a flow-directing or obstructing vane or panel used in some industrial process vessels (tanks)
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Baffle (medicine)
A baffle is a surgically created tunnel or wall within the heart or major blood vessels used to redirect the flow of blood. They are used in some types of heart abnormalities that a child is born with known as congenital heart defects. Baffles a ...
, a tunnel or wall surgically constructed within the heart or primary blood vessels to redirect blood flow
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Baffles (submarine)
The baffles is the area in the water directly behind a submarine or ship through which a hull-mounted sonar cannot hear. This blind spot is caused by the need to insulate the sonar array, commonly mounted near the bow, from the noise of the ...
, the blind spot in a submarine's sonar created by the body of the submarine
* ''Baffle'' or ''All-Star Baffle'', a 1973–74 revival of
''PDQ'' (game show), where contestants had to guess phrases from a short combination of letters
* Baffle gate, another name for
turnstile
A turnstile (also called a gateline, baffle gate, automated gate, turn gate in some regions) is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time. A turnstile can be configured to enforce One-way traffic#One-way traffic of people, one-way ...
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Optical baffle
An optical baffle is an opto-mechanical construction designed to block light from a source shining into the front of an optical system and reaching the image as unwanted light.
Principles
Optical systems which have stringent requirements on s ...
, shroud protecting the optics of an imaging system from being disturbed from
stray light
Stray light is light in an optical system which was not intended in the design. The light may be from the intended source, but follow paths other than intended, or it may be from a source other than that intended. This light will often set a worki ...
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Sound baffle
A sound baffle is a construction or device which reduces the strength (level) of airborne sound. Sound baffles are a fundamental tool of noise mitigation, the practice of minimizing noise pollution or reverberation. An important type of sound ...
, any object designed to reduce airborne sound
** Components in a
loudspeaker enclosure
A loudspeaker enclosure or loudspeaker cabinet is an enclosure (often rectangular box-shaped) in which speaker drivers (e.g., woofers and tweeters) and associated electronic hardware, such as crossover circuits and, in some cases, power am ...
used to negate the out-of-phase sound waves from the rear of the loudspeaker
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suppressor
A silencer, also known as a sound suppressor, suppressor, or sound moderator, is a gun barrel#Muzzle, muzzle device that suppresses the muzzle blast, blast created when a gun (firearm or airgun) is discharged, thereby reducing the sound inten ...
used to redirect the gas from a gunshot to minimise sound and light
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Baffle blocks
Baffle blocks are concrete structures with different shapes, for example trapezoidal, are used in flowing water to reduce its force
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