baffling

Definition of baffling in English English dictionary: puzzling and frustrating; Present participle of baffle; {s} confusing, bewildering; Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks; making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
baffling problem: {i} problem or situation that is confusing and bewildering
baffle: to foil or frustrate
baffle: {f} bewilder, confuse; frustrate
baffle: {v} t. to decieve, confound, elude, defeat
baffle: 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
baffle: A device used to restrain or regulate, e.g. sound, light, gas, or a fluid
baffle: To practice deceit
baffle: To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight
baffle: Barriers to provide some acoustical isolation between microphones assigned to specific instruments in a musical group (aka Gobo)
baffle: {i} instrument that regulates flow; board that regulates flow
baffle: To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil
baffle: 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 "
baffle: 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
baffle: A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine
baffle: a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy check the emission of (sound)
baffle: a single opaque or translucent element to shield a source from direct view at certain angles, or to absorb unwanted light
baffle: 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
baffle: - A material inside a water mattress that helps restrict the motion
baffle: A moveable barrier used to achieve separation of signals from different sources The surface or board upon which a loudspeaker is mounted
baffle: A device to prevent direct fluid flow or impingement on a surface
baffle: Totally bewilder; confuse or perplex
baffle: 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
baffle: 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
baffle: To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds
baffle: Plate or vane used to direct movement of fluid or air within a confined area
baffle: 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
baffle: A device, such as a steel plate, used to check, retard, or divert a flow of a material
baffle: 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
baffle: Material that extracts stray light from an incoming image
baffle: a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
baffle: 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
baffle: 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
baffle: A device, such as a plate or screen, installed to alter / reduce the velocity of water
baffle: A device fixed to a light fitting to prevent light from glaring into the eyes
baffle: - 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
baffle: A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture
baffle: a single opague or translucent element to shield a source from direct view at certain angles, or to absorb unwanted light
baffle: To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart
baffle: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
baffle: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
baffle: a board or other plane surface used to mount a loudspeaker
baffle: 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
baffle: An opaque shield of metal, wood, or plastic used to shield the view of the light source
baffle: 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
baffle: check the emission of (sound)