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diaphragm
  1. (anatomy) 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. (anatomy) 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. (mechanics) 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. (optics, photography) A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device.
  7. (chemistry) A permeable or semipermeable membrane.
  8. (construction) A floor slab, metal wall panel, roof panel or the like, havig a sufficiently large in-plane shear stiffness and sufficient strength to transmit horizontal forces to resisting systems.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. midriff, stomach, middle, tummy, belly, tum, waist, abdomen, waistline, midsection, love handles, gut, girth, pot, paunch, breadbasket, corporation, potbelly, puku, pot belly, beer belly, bay window, spare tyre, spare tire, bingy, venter, solar plexus, bread basket, beer gut, insides, guts, kyte, tank, intestines, front porch, middle-aged spread, bulge, fat, epigastrium, fat stomach, muffin top, protruding stomach, large stomach, fat belly, protruding belly, beer-belly, fat abdomen, large abdomen, middle-age spread, protruding abdomen … more
diaphragms
  1. plural of diaphragm
  2. Synonyms:
      3. midriffs, stomachs, middles, tummies, bellies, tums, waists, abdomens, waistlines, midsections, girth, guts, pots, paunches, pukus, pot bellies, potbellies, breadbaskets, spare tires, corporations, spare tyres, beer bellies, bay windows, beer guts, bingies, solar plexus, bread baskets, venters, tanks, insides, front porches, kytes, fat, bulges, epigastria, muffin tops, maws, pessaries, membranes, film, tissue, layers, skin, amnions, cauls, integuments, mucosae, peel, pellicles, peritoneums … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Weathered specimens can also break along the segmental boundaries and expose additional structures, the so-called segmental diaphragms.”
      “The cars are semi-permanently connected by drawbars instead of couplers, so the noise of banging buffer plates and diaphragms is eliminated.”
      “As autozooids grew in length, the outermost diaphragms were calcified in sequence as their membranes formed.”
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