The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word DIAPHRAGM
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More clues leading to the result DIAPHRAGM
- Paid back low newspaper interrupting Her Majesty’s division
- Inspiration will bring one down
- Doctored graph stopping virgin on the rebound getting contraceptive
- Not clear about a graph distorted in partition
- Internal division as shareholders’ meeting supports rise for salaried personnel
- Mrs Behn’s good in dull film
- Hospital in the midst of paradigm shift created birth control device
- Part of a camera rim had gap for adjustment
- Paid back by the hour with silver - 1000 for separating membrane
- Page hundred introduced diagram representing membrane
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The straight part
We know that "membrane" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case membrane = diaphragm.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DIAPHRAGM mean?
DIAPHRAGM noun- 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.
- Any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another.
- 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.
- (acoustics) In a speaker, the thin, semi-rigid membrane which vibrates to produce sound.
- A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device.
- A permeable or semipermeable membrane.
- 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.
- To reduce lens aperture using an optical diaphragm.
- To act as a diaphragm, for example by vibrating.