diaphragm vs disc

disc vs diaphragm

diaphragm and disc both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
diaphragm	Yes	No	No	No
disc	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, disc is a hypernym of diaphragm; that is, disc is a word with a broader meaning than diaphragm:

diaphragm: electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves
disc: a flat circular plate

Other hypernyms of diaphragm include disk.

diaphragm (noun)	disc (noun)
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens	a flat circular plate
electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves	sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix	(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
(anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration	something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

Difference between diaphragm and disc

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