DIFFUSER - 2 reference results
Diffuser can refer to any device that diffuse in some manner such as:
- In aerodynamics
- Diffuser (automotive), a shaped section of a car's underbody which improves the car's aerodynamic properties
- divergent part of the flute
- divergent part of the aspirator
- Jet_engine#Air_intakes, especially when operated at clearly supersonic speeds
- the channel between the vanes of a turbine
- the channel between the vanes of a the stator of the centrifugal compressor
- Diffuser (breathing set part), a device fitted over an underwater breathing set's blow hole to break up the resulting bubbles
- Diffuser (optics), a device that diffuses or spreads out or scatters light in some manner
- Diffusion filter, a diffuser used in photography
- Diffuser (sewage), an aerating device for sewage and industrial waste water treatment plants; a membrane with fine pores, eg. [ecotube diffuser], through which fine bubbles are generated by the supply of air through blowers
- Diffuser (thermodynamics), a device that controls the characteristics of a fluid at the entrance to a thermodynamic open system
- Diffuser (heat), a cooking item that can be placed above a stove heating element or burner to separate the cooking utensil from the heat source
Diffuser can also refer to:
- Diffuser (band), a punk rock band from the Long Island area
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