diaphragm

Etymology
From, from and , from the verb.

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)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حِجَابٌ حَاجِز
 * Egyptian Arabic: حجاب حاجز
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: diafraqma
 * Belarusian: дыяфра́гма
 * Bulgarian: диафра́гма
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: neb
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: mellemgulv
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: diafragmo
 * Estonian: diafragma, vahelihas
 * Faroese: tind
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: დიაფრაგმა, შუასაძგიდი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: διάφραγμα
 * Hindi: मध्यपट, तनुपट, मध्यच्छद
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Inuktitut: ᑲᓂᕙᐅᑎ (kanivauti)
 * Irish: scairt
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: көкет
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: navpençik
 * Kyrgyz: диафрагма
 * Latin: praecordia
 * Latvian: diafragma
 * Lithuanian: diafragma
 * Macedonian: дијафра́гма
 * Malay: diafragma
 * Maori: pātūpoho
 * Navajo: acháshjish
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, mellomgulv
 * Nynorsk: mellomgolv
 * Old English: midhriðre, midhrif
 * Persian:, میان‌بند
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: прѐчага, о̀шит, дијафра̀гма
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: prepona,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: lamang-tabing
 * Tajik: диафрагма
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: діафра́гма
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: cơ hoành
 * Volapük: ditavöl
 * Welsh: llengig


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Hindi: मध्यपट
 * Macedonian: мембра́на
 * Russian:


 * Catalan:
 * Danish: pessar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi: मध्यपट
 * Irish: diafram
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: дијафра́гма
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дијафра̀гма
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: scannán
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 격막
 * Macedonian: мембра́на
 * Maori: kiri tōiri
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: membran
 * Nynorsk: membran
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:, kaiutinkalvo
 * Gujarati: સ્વરપડદો
 * Irish: scannán
 * Macedonian: мембра́на
 * Maori: kiri tōiri
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: membran
 * Nynorsk: membran
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: диафра́гма,
 * Danish: blænder
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: spiara
 * Italian: diaframma lamellare
 * Macedonian: дијафра́гма, бле́нда
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: blender
 * Nynorsk: blendar
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: мембра́на
 * Russian:


 * Korean:

Verb

 * 1)  To reduce lens aperture using an optical diaphragm.
 * 2) To act as a diaphragm, for example by vibrating.
 * 1) To act as a diaphragm, for example by vibrating.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Spanish: