The boobam is a percussion instrument of the membranophone family consisting of an array of tubes with membranes stretched on one end, the other end open.

Another lizard, this one bright yellow, ran a few steps along the bulkhead before launching itself on flaps of translucent membrane stretched by its three pairs of legs.

Instead of feathers they had leathery membranes stretched between the thin bones of their outspread wings.

They can glide long distances, as they have a thin membrane stretched to the ends of the tail and each limb.

Bell's telephone transmitter (microphone) consisted of a double electromagnet, in front of which a membrane, stretched on a ring, carried an oblong piece of soft iron cemented to its middle.

His mills and malls, bars and insurance men's cubicles at Sears in their chilling verisimilitude make all the more menacing his sense that life is a thin membrane stretched to its limit over an unending maelstrom.

Her focus returning, she saw a Zaldan's hand resting on a broken chair nearby, the delicate, translucent membranes stretched between the fingers contrasting with the bloody ruin at the wrist.

In the most common resistive system, a membrane stretched over the surface deforms under pressure to make contact with a conducting backplate.

A drumhead is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum.

For a few fleeting instants, Picard could actually see the membrane, stretched over 0's thrusting head and shoulders like a layer of adhesive glue and glowing with white-hot energy so intense it made his eyes water.