diaphragm

Meaning of diaphragm

noun
  1. In mammals, a sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen, contracted and relaxed in respiration to draw air into and expel air from the lungs; also called thoracic diaphragm.
  2. Any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another.
  3. A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse.
  4. A flexible membrane separating two chambers and fixed around its periphery that distends into one or other chamber as the difference in the pressure in the chambers varies.
  5. (acoustics) In a speaker, the thin, semi-rigid membrane which vibrates to produce sound.
  6. A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device.
  7. A permeable or semipermeable membrane.
  8. A floor slab, metal wall panel, roof panel or the like, having a sufficiently large in-plane shear stiffness and sufficient strength to transmit horizontal forces to resisting systems.
verb
  1. To reduce lens aperture using an optical diaphragm.
  2. To act as a diaphragm, for example by vibrating.

Information about diaphragm

  • The plural form of diaphragm is: diaphragms.
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Hyphenation of diaphragm

di-aphragm

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • diaphragm is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

diaphragm synonyms

Meaning stop:

stop

Meaning midriff:

midriff

Meaning pessary:

pessary

Translation of diaphragm

Words that rhyme with diaphragm

endophragm, epiphragm, hemidiaphragm, mesophragm, metaphragm, paraphragm

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