microdiaphragm
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editmicrodiaphragm (plural microdiaphragms)
- A very small diaphragm.
- 1989, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 721:
- A microdiaphragm having an adjustable aperture between 0.5 and 1,000 μm comprising: a pair of separate diaphragm strips, each of said diaphragm strips comprising two plates, […]
- 1999, Oleg V. Angelsky, Steen G. Hanson, Peter P. Maksimyak, Use of Optical Correlation Techniques for Characterizing Scattering Objects and Media (page 180)
- An amplitude spatial frequency filter consisting of several transparent and opaque concentric rings and having a microdiaphragm in the center is placed in the frequency plane of the objective lens.
- 2013, Kelvin K. L. Wong, Methods in Research and Development of Biomedical Devices, page VII:
- It depends on the operation of a microdiaphragm that moves up and down to push biofluids through a channel.