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Wright respirometer (medicine) and chaff(1) (iou)


Wright respirometer (medicine)


Wright respirometer


An inferential meter to measure tidal and minute volume from the number of revolutions of a vane rotated by the gas stream as the latter passes through 10 tangential slots in a cylindrical stator ring to turn a flat two-bladed rotor.


chaff(1) (iou)



chaff noun1 & verb1.

A. noun.
The husks of corn etc. separated from the grain by threshing or winnowing. OE.
Cut hay (and straw) used for feeding cattle. OE.
transf. Refuse, worthless stuff or residue. LME.
Botany. Thin dry bracts or scales, esp. the bracts at the base of the florets in plants of the composite family. L18.
Strips of metal foil released in the air to obstruct radar detection. M20.
Phrases: be caught with chaff be easily deceived or trapped. separate the wheat from the chaff fig. distinguish good from bad.
Comb.: chaff-cutter a machine for cutting hay and straw.
b. verb trans. Cut (hay etc.) for fodder. L19.