silencer

English

Etymology

silence +‎ -er

Noun

silencer (plural silencers)

1. Something that silences
   1. An attachment to a gun or an exhaust pipe that reduces the sound it emits
   2. The muffler of an internal combustion engine.
      • 1962 April, P. W. B. Semmens, “The Netherlands Railways today”, in Modern Railways, page 241:

        Before the fitting of silencers to these locomotives was completed by the end of 1961, they were very noisy in operation, but the effect of the silencer has been remarkable.

   3. Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires
   4. (genetics) Something that prevents gene expression

Synonyms

• (attachment): suppressor
• (firearms): suppressor, muffler
• (in exhaust system) muffler

Derived terms

• intake silencer

 

Translations

attachment

• Belarusian: глушы́цель m (hlušýcjelʹ)
• Bulgarian: заглуши́тел (bg) m (zaglušítel)
• Catalan: silenciador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消聲器／消声器 (zh) (xiāoshēngqì), 消音器 (zh) (xiāoyīnqì)

• Czech: tlumič m
• Danish: (firearms) lyddæmper c, (vehicles) lydpotte c
• Dutch: demper (nl), geluiddemper (nl) m
• Finnish: äänenvaimennin (fi)
• French: silencieux (fr) m
• Georgian: მაყუჩი (maq̇uči)
• German: Schalldämpfer (de) m
• Greek: σιγαστήρας (el) m (sigastíras)
• Hungarian: hangtompító (hu)
• Irish: ciúnadóir m
• Italian: silenziatore (it) m
• Japanese: 消音器 (ja) (しょうおんき, shōonki), サイレンサー (ja) (sairensā), マフラー (ja) (mafurā)
• Korean: 소음기 (so'eumgi), 머플러 (meopeulleo)
• Latvian: slāpētājs m, klusinātājs m
• Macedonian: приду́шувач m (pridúšuvač), а́успух m (áuspuh)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lyddemper m, (vehicles, boats) lydpotte m or f

  Nynorsk: lyddempar m, (vehicles, boats) lydpotte f

• Polish: tłumik (pl) m
• Portuguese: silenciador (pt) m
• Romanian: silențiator (ro) n
• Russian: глуши́тель (ru) m (glušítelʹ)
• Sardinian: amudadore m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ауспух m

  Roman: auspuh m

• Spanish: silenciador m
• Swedish: ljuddämpare (sv) c
• Tagalog: silensyador, pang-alis-ingay, pamatay-tunog
• Turkish: susturucu (tr)
• Ukrainian: глушни́к m (hlušnýk)
• Welsh: distawydd f

something that silences another thing

• Dutch: geluiddemper (nl) m
• Estonian: summuti
• Finnish: äänenvaimennin (fi)
• Georgian: გამაჩუმებელი (gamačumebeli)
• Italian: marmitta (it) f, silenziatore (it) m
• Portuguese: silenciador (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian: prigušivač (sh) m
• Spanish: silenciador m
• Tagalog: pamatay-tunog

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