The word muffler is correct and is used in written English.
It is commonly used to refer to an exhaust device on a vehicle, such as a car or motorcycle, that silences the noise from the engine. For example, "He went to the auto shop to fix his muffler."
It is not necessary to have a degree in engineering to change a muffler, and it isn't necessary to have an advanced understanding of human biochemistry to know what antibiotic to prescribe for which infection.
Among these were the exhaust muffler, the electric starter, the discovery of underground reserves of petroleum in the United States, and, ultimately, Henry Ford's assembly-line model for producing cars cheap enough to be owned by the common man.
There is even a photograph of her laboriously toiling away on a "muffler" for some lucky serviceman in the Boer war.
Then you'll need your fur tippet, a crinoline, muffler and a chaperone.
So when Roberto Mancini took to the pitch in Poland last night for a pre-match TV chat without his usual blue-and-white muffler, "Scarfgate" was under way.
The decibel level of each may be reduced by changing tire-tread designs and highway surfaces, by improving exhaust muffler efficiency and shielding the engine with more absorbent materials, and by changing fan blade and engine enclosure designs.
His efforts to improve the gasoline-powered automobile led to research on the exhaust muffler, which in turn brought the discovery of the principle that made possible the famous "silencer".
Exhaust gases from an internal-combustion engine are passed through a muffler to suppress audible vibrations.
The muffler damps out or absorbs these pulsations so that the gases leave the outlet as a relatively smooth, quiet stream.
This improves fuel economy, reduces exhaust temperatures to safer levels, and eliminates the need for a muffler in some designs.
The following day, I would present them, along with my dead muffler, at the Town Office in a display of righteous anger.
