Chamber or The Chamber may refer to:
Organizations and government
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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 a ...
, a form of business network
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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 bicamer ...
, a deliberative assembly within a legislature
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Debate chamber
A debate chamber is a room for conducting the business of a deliberative assembly or otherwise for debating. When used as the meeting place of a legislature, a debate chamber may also be known as a council chamber, legislative chamber, assembly ...
, a room for people to discuss and debate
Arts and entertainment
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Chamber (character)
Chamber (Jonothon Evan Starsmore; alternatively spelled Jonothan) 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 possesse ...
, in Marvel comics
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''The Chamber'' (game show), an American TV show
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''The Chamber'' (novel), by John Grisham, 1994
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''The Chamber'' (1996 film), based on the novel
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''The Chamber'' (2016 film), a survival film
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Business
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Barristers' chamber - office used by Lawyers
Other uses
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Chamber (firearms)
The chamber of a firearm is the cavity at the back end of a breechloading weapon's barrel or cylinder, where the ammunition is inserted before being fired. The rear opening of the chamber is the breech, and is sealed by the breechblock or the ...
, part of a weapon
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Combustion chamber
A combustion chamber is part of an internal combustion engine in which the air–fuel ratio, fuel/air mix is burned. For steam engines, the term has also been used for an extension of the Firebox (steam engine), firebox which is used to allow a mo ...
, part of an engine in which fuel is burned
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Environmental 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 component ...
, 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 prison#Security levels, maximum-security prison, although not always at the same p ...
, where capital punishment is carried out
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Gas chamber
A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or 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.
History
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, apparatus for killing humans or animals
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Chambar
Chambar, or Chamber, is a town of Tando Allahyar District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is headquarters of Chamber Taluka (an administrative subdivision of the district). The town itself is administratively subdivided into two union coun ...
, or Chamber, a town in Pakistan
See also
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Chambers (disambiguation)
Chambers commonly refers to:
* Chambers (surname) Chambers is a common surname of English people, English origin. It usually denoted either a servant who worked in his master's private chambers, or a ''camararius'', a person in charge of an exchequ ...
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Chamber music (disambiguation)
Chamber music is a form of classical music written for a small group of instruments.
Chamber music may also refer to:
Music
* ''Chamber Music'' (Berio), a 1953 composition by Luciano Berio
Albums
*'' Chambers' Music'', a 1956 album by Paul Cham ...
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Great chamber
The great chamber was the second most important room in a medieval or Tudor English castle, palace, mansion, or manor house after the great hall. Medieval great halls were the ceremonial centre of the household and were not private at all; the g ...
, in an English castle or manor house
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Chambre (disambiguation), French for chamber
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Room
In a building or 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. The entrance connects it to either a passageway, another room, or the outdoors. The space is ...
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