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Dampener terminology

A dampener is a standard engineering and music term, used to indicate the reduction of amplitude of oscillations. It has nothing to do with making something wet. A damper, incidentally, is not related to water, either, but refers to a cross-piece in a flu for a stove, used to moderate the heat that is produced by the stove, through reducing air flow. You need to review the meaning of words before arbitrarily going through wikipedia and changing established terms of art about which you are unaware. Music dampener is the proper terminology. Music damper is not the proper terminology. Yaf (talk) 20:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't know about Music Dampening(or damping, as it might be), but I can use a dictionary. From Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry:
damp·en
Pronunciation:
\ˈdam-pən\
Function:
verb
Inflected Form(s):
damp·ened; damp·en·ing \ˈdamp-niŋ, ˈdam-pə-\
Date:
1547

transitive verb
1 : to check or diminish the activity or vigor of : deaden <the heat dampened our spirits>
2 : to make damp <the shower barely dampened the ground>
3 : damp 1c
intransitive verb
1 : to become damp 2 : to become deadened or depressed
— damp·en·er \-nər\ noun

And also

Main Entry:
2damp
Function:
verb
Date:
14th century

transitive verb
1 a: to affect with or as if with a noxious gas : choke b: to diminish the activity or intensity of <damping down the causes of inflation> <liquid damps out compass oscillations> c: to check the vibration or oscillation of (as a string or voltage)
2: dampen(intransitive verb): to diminish progressively in vibration or oscillation

From what I can see, Dampening has to do with lowering the vigor of an activity, while Damping deals largely with vibrations. But even then, the article for "damp" points to "dampen" near the bottom. I prefer dampen, myself. Still, my friend, rampaging Wikipedia with "dampening != damping" might be a bit overzealous. ~ Wakanda's Black Panther! (contribs) 06:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

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