iris diaphragm

1. 1.

   diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening

   Synonymsiris

   Broaderdiaphragm

Questions about iris diaphragm

What does iris diaphragm mean?

iris diaphragm means "diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening".

What is another word for iris diaphragm?

Close synonyms include iris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is iris diaphragm a common word?

iris diaphragm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.