diaphragm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English diafragma, Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma, “partition”), from διά (diá, “across”) and φράγμα (phrágma, “barrier”), from the verb φράσσω (phrássō). First attested in the late 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: diaphragms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diaphragms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diaphragming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: diaphragmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: diaphragmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: thoracic diaphragm
pulmonary diaphragm
gloss: Any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another.
pos: noun
gloss: A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse.
pos: noun
examples: cervical diaphragm
contraceptive diaphragm
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: There also were five broken panes of glass on the two huge, rubberlike diaphragms that equalize air pressure within the dome as the artificial atmosphere expands and contracts with temperature variations, he said.
gloss: In a speaker, the thin, semi-rigid membrane which vibrates to produce sound.
pos: noun
examples: acoustic diaphragm
gloss: A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device.
pos: noun
gloss: A permeable or semipermeable membrane.
pos: noun
examples: The mass of liquid transported through a porous diaphragm in a given time is directly proportional to the current.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: To reduce lens aperture using an optical diaphragm.
pos: verb
examples: He employs an equatorial with an object-glass having a focal length of five metres, and which was diaphragmed down to eight centimetres.
gloss: To act as a diaphragm, for example by vibrating.
pos: verb
examples: The holes and burning are caused by the part diaphragming at 20000-40000 cycles/second.
Derived words: diaphragmal
diaphragm arch
diaphragmatic
diaphragmatically
diaphragm cell
diaphragmic
diaphragmitis
diaphragmless
diaphragm pump
diaphragm seal
diaphragm shutter
diaphragm valve
diaphragm wall
hemidiaphragm
interdiaphragm
iris diaphragm
microdiaphragm
pelvic diaphragm
Potter-Bucky diaphragm
Waterhouse diaphragm
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: мембра́на
roman: membrána
lang: Catalan
word: diafragma
lang: Danish
word: membran
lang: Dutch
word: diafragma
lang: Dutch
word: membraan
lang: Finnish
word: kalvo
lang: French
word: membrane
lang: German
word: Membran
lang: Irish
word: scannán
lang: Italian
word: diaframma
lang: Korean
word: 격막
roman: gyeongmak
lang: Korean
word: 가로막
roman: garomak
lang: Macedonian
word: мембра́на
roman: membrána
lang: Māori
word: kiri tōiri
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: membran
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: membran
lang: Portuguese
word: diafragma
lang: Romanian
word: membrană
lang: Romanian
word: diafragmă
lang: Russian
word: мембра́на
roman: membrána
lang: Russian
word: диафра́гма
roman: diafrágma
lang: Spanish
word: diafragma
lang: Swedish
word: membran