Definition of Baffle board

1. Noun. A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy.

Exact synonyms: Baffle
Specialized synonyms: Diffuser, Diffusor
Generic synonyms: Plate
Derivative terms: Baffle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Baffle Board

baenomeres
baenopod
baenopods
baenosome
baetyl
baetyls
bafertisite
baff
baffed
baffed-out
baffed out
baffie
baffies
baffing
baffle
baffle board (current term)
baffle chamber
bafflectomies
bafflectomy
baffled
bafflegab
bafflegabs
bafflement
bafflements
baffler
bafflers
baffles
baffling
bafflingly
bafflingness

Literary usage of Baffle board

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Handbook of Gold Milling by Henry Louis (1902)
"This - expression accordingly indicates the greatest depth to which the baffle board may be immersed in the mercury ; it is not strictly accurate because ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1913)
"The large box is divided in the middle by a baffle-board that reaches nearly to the surface of the water. Most of the ore fine enough to pass through the ..."

3. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"baffle board SETTLING TANK.—This form of apparatus is reported by Courtenay De Kalb (private communication) as being in use at ..."

4. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1900)
"Between the main sewer outlet, as it discharged into the tank, and the first baffle board, the suspended matter of sewage was heavy and thick; ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"In each pocket is a baffle board b and inlet pipe c for water. ... It passes under the baffle board b of the first pocket and meets the current of water ..."

6. Annual Report ... Proceedings at Annual Meeting by Illinois Society of Engineers (1901)
"The outlet generally consists of a wide weir protected by another baffle board; and in some of the flexible tanks where the flow is made to pass through ..."

7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"The tailings stream was forced to pass underneath a baffle on entering the widened space, and was also forced to travel under another baffle board at the ..."

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