Device to help achieve a ventilation space between insulation and roof sheathing It helps assure air flow from the eave vents in attics and cathedral ceilings
Baffles are dividers put in fire department water tanks to prevent the load from shifting rapidly while the apparatus is in motion; also the divider used to separate beds of hose into two or more compartments
A flat board or plate, deflector, guide, or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities to absorb energy and to divert, guide, or agitate liquids
A panel or other surface whose purpose is to prevent the transmission of sound Also: a panel or other surface in a loudspeaker system that reduces interference between sound radiated from the front and rear of the speaker driver by increasing the path length from front to back Also: "to stupefy "
A flat board or plate, deflector, guide, or simiolar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities to absorb energy and to divert, guide, or agitate liquids
A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir
If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it. An apple tree producing square fruit is baffling experts. = puzzle + baffling baf·fling I was constantly ill, with a baffling array of symptoms. + baffled baf·fled Police are baffled by the murder. if something baffles you, you cannot understand or explain it at all (Probably from bawchill ). a board, sheet of metal etc that controls the flow of air, water, or sound into or out of something
A flat board or plate, deflector, guide or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities, to absorb energy, and to divert, guide, or agitate liquids
A structure surgically created to divert blood flow For instance, in atrial switch operations for complete transposition of the great vessels, an intra-atrial baffle is constructed to divert systemic venous return across the mitral valve thence to LV and pulmonary artery, and pulmonary venous return across the tricuspid valve thence to RV and aorta see also Mustard procedure see also Senning procedure
A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated
An obstruction in a combustion chamber used to prevent combustion instability by maintaining uniform mixtures and equalizing pressures; in a fuel tank, used to prevent sloshing by damping propellant oscillation
A flat panel that divides the front and rear sound waves produced by a woofer Sometimes baffle is used to mean an enclosure or the front panel that the speaker is mounted on 4
- Any panel where speakers are mounted that isolates the front wave of the speaker from its back wave, preventing a mixing of the two signals and consequent loss of bass response A baffle provides an acoustic seal which prevents the air from the front of the speaker from mixing with the air from the back of the speaker
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
The front mounting surface of a speaker enclosure That surface also serves to suppress emission of the opposing-phase sound waves produced by the backs of speaker cones, making the baffle a significant enclosure element
A plate, grating, or refractory wall used especially to block, hinder, or divert a flow The baghouse inlet typically has the highest velocity Particulate will sandblast the lower portion of the bags in the baghouse in the absence of a baffle