The Star Chamber was a notorious English court of law.
Star Chamber may also refer to:
- Star Chamber (play), a 1936 play by Noël Coward
- The Star Chamber, a 1983 thriller film starring Michael Douglas
- Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga, an online collectible card game
- Star chamber, a slang U.S. military term for the "barrel extension", the part of the upper receiver of the M-16 and M-4 into which the bolt and bullet go. It is so named because it is an acorn-sized void resembling an asterisk, and is infamous among service members for being notoriously difficult to rid of accumulated carbon without a power drill and an attached metal brush.
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