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silencer

silencer

English

Noun

silencer ‎(plural silencers)

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.
3. Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.

Synonyms

(attachment): suppressor
(in exhaust system) muffler

Translations

attachment

Belarusian: глушы́цель m ‎(hlušýcjelʹ)
Bulgarian: заглуши́тел m ‎(zaglušítel)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 消聲器 (zh), 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
Hungarian: hangtompító (hu)
Japanese: 消音器 ‎(しょうおんき, shōonki), サイレンサー ‎(sairensā), マフラー ‎(mafurā)

Korean: 소음기 ‎(so-eumgi), 머플러 ‎(meopeulleo)
Norwegian:

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

Nynorsk: lyddempar m, (vehicles, boats) lydpotte f
Portuguese: silenciador (pt) m
Russian: глуши́тель (ru) m ‎(glušítelʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ауспух m

Roman: auspuh m
Swedish: ljuddämpare c
Tagalog: silensyador, pang-alis-ingay, pamatay-tunog
Turkish: susturucu (tr)
Ukrainian: глушни́к m ‎(hlušnýk)

something that silences another thing

Dutch: geluiddemper (nl) m
Estonian: summuti
Finnish: äänenvaimennin (fi)
Georgian: გამაჩუმებელი ‎(gamačumebeli)

Portuguese: silenciador (pt) m
Serbo-Croatian: prigušivač (sh) m
Tagalog: pamatay-tunog

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