cylinder
IPA: sˈɪɫʌndɝ
noun
- (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
- (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
- Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
- A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
- (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
- A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
- An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
- The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
- (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
verb
- (transitive) To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.
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Examples of "cylinder" in Sentences
- The cylinder overlaps the body of the combine.
- This minimizes the deflection of the cylinders.
- The cylinder is then placed in the end fitting.
- Note the pronounced stagger of the cylinder banks.
- The cylinder is the cotangent bundle of the circle.
- A spout is attached to the side wall of the cylinder.
- The diameter of that cylinder is equal to the wingspan.
- As the coil is energized, the gas in the cylinder is excited.
- Improved cylinder is best for rifled slugs but any choke will do.
- The contrivance consists of an outward cylinder and an inward cylinder.
- Lubrication to the cylinders was by cylinder taps mounted over the cylinders.
- Then buy a drop in cylinder conversion kit, no license required or background check required.
- Lavishly renovated, the three-story cylinder is now the Canopy Tower hotel, a mecca for serious birders.
- We play it constantly … instead of marbles they are the little green alien men and the cylinder is a spaceship.
- Our 20th century based mindset will seem to be so quaint in 90 years, just as the thought of recording sound onto a wax cylinder is so primitive to us.
- It consists of a small wooden cylinder, about three quarters of an inch in diameter, and 3 in. long; at one end of the cylinder is a cavity which holds the combustible, which is confined only by pasteboard or membrane, so that, when ignited, it will blow straight into the heart of the principal charge; the two wires of the electric circuit, entering at the other end of the cylinder, terminate upon the little wooden disc which forms the bottom of this cavity, so that the end of one wire is about a quarter of an inch from the other; the electric circuit is completed by drawing a dash with a blacklead-pencil across the tiny space of the wooden surface connecting the two ends of wire; and the fusee is then charged.
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