Chamber

Chamber may refer to:

  • Chamber (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero associated with the X-Men
  • Chamber (firearms), the portion of the barrel or firing cylinder in which the cartridge is inserted prior to being fired
  • Chambers (law), the rooms used by a barrister or to an association of barristers
  • A room inside a building
  • Great Chamber, the second most important room in a medieval or Tudor English castle, palace, mansion or manor house
  • Chambar, a town in Pakistan also spelt Chamber
  • Environment chamber used in testing
  • Chamber (TempTale), a USB Interface Plus Reader

It may also refer to:

  • Chambers of commerce, a business network with local, regional, national, international and bi-lateral Chambers
  • List of employer associations and other business organizations
  • Chambers of parliament, in politics
  • Chamber music, a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber
  • Combustion chamber, part of an engine in which fuel is burned

The Chamber may also refer to:

  • The Chamber (game show), a short-lived game show on FOX
  • The Chamber (novel), a suspense novel by John Grisham
    • The Chamber (film), based on the novel

Famous quotes containing the word chamber:

    “The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.”
    —William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon] (b. 1939)

    “O birds, your perfect virtues bring,
    Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,
    Your manners for your heart’s delight,
    Nestle in hedge, or barn, or roof,
    Here weave your chamber weather-proof,
    Forgive our harms, and condescend
    To man, as to a lubber friend,
    And, generous, teach his awkward race
    Courage, and probity, and grace!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “That’s where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.”
    —Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)