A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device.
In a speaker, the thin, semi-rigid membrane which vibrates to produce sound.
Any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another.
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.
A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse.
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.
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.
A permeable or semipermeable membrane.
To reduce lens aperture using an optical diaphragm.
To act as a diaphragm, for example by vibrating.
A medium used to capture images in a camera.
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.