silencer

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Among billboards for restaurants, gun silencers and tractors, a digital sign hints at the crisis gripping the community: a warning about the dangers of measles, which can cause complications including pneumonia, brain swelling and death.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

All those loops create millions of contact points where genes encounter non-coding DNA sequences, such as super enhancers, promoters, and silencers that regulate gene expression.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

At both trials, Dixon argued that Speed never made the modification required to turn the devices into functional silencers: drilling a small hole into the tube’s end cap.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

Prosecutors, though, said the law governing silencers covers devices intended for use as a silencer, regardless of whether they are functional or sold under another name.

From Washington Times • Apr. 13, 2023

Devices called silencers are therefore fitted, to render the escape more gradual, and split it up among a number of small apertures.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald