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Cylinder
Definitions
- 1 A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
"When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both right and circular are usually implied."
- 2 a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air wordnet
- 3 A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
- 4 a chamber within which piston moves wordnet
- 5 Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
"A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder."
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- 6 a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) wordnet
- 7 A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
- 8 a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line wordnet
- 9 The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
- 10 A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
- 11 An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
- 12 The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
- 13 The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
- 1 To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy. transitive
Etymology
From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.
From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.
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