cylinder
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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cylinder (plural cylinders)
- (geometry) 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.
- (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
- Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
- 1898, H. G. Wells, chapter 4, in The War of the Worlds:
- A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the 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.
Derived terms
[edit]- axis cylinder
- bicylinder
- cylinderer
- cylinder function
- cylinder glass
- cylinder head
- cylinder-head-sector
- cylinderlike
- cylinder mower
- cylindraceous
- cylindric
- cylindrical
- cylindrification
- cylindrify
- cylindrite
- cylindroma
- demicylinder
- diving cylinder
- double cylinder
- fire on all cylinders
- graduated cylinder
- hemicylinder
- hypercylinder
- master cylinder
- measuring cylinder
- microcylinder
- multicylinder
- nanocylinder
- Nessler cylinder
- noncylinder
- O'Neill cylinder
- opposed cylinder
- opposed piston opposed cylinder
- oxygen cylinder
- penicylinder
- relay cylinder
- renal cylinder
- reversing cylinder
- roasting cylinder
- semicylinder
- slave cylinder
- spherocylinder
- subcylinder
- Tipler cylinder
- tricylinder
- twisted cylinder
- two-cylinder
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]geometry: surface
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geometry: solid
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any cylindrical object
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cavity or chamber
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the space in which a piston travels
container
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recording
part of a revolver which contains chambers for rounds
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Verb
[edit]cylinder (third-person singular simple present cylinders, present participle cylindering, simple past and past participle cylindered)
- (transitive) To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.
See also
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cylinder c (singular definite cylinderen, plural indefinite cylindere or cylindre)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of cylinder
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | cylinder | cylinderen | cylindere cylindre |
cylinderne cylindrene |
| genitive | cylinders | cylinderens | cylinderes cylindres |
cylindernes cylindrenes |
Further reading
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cylinder on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da- Cylinder (geometri) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Cylinder (fluidmekanik) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Cylinder (motordel) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Polish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Zylinder. Doublet of kalander.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cylinder m inan (diminutive cylinderek, related adjective cylindrowy)
- top hat, high hat, cylinder hat, topper
- (geometry) cylinder (any object in the form of a circular cylinder)
- Synonym: walec
- (automotive) cylinder (space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump)
Declension
[edit]Declension of cylinder
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cylinder | cylindry |
| genitive | cylindra | cylindrów |
| dative | cylindrowi | cylindrom |
| accusative | cylinder | cylindry |
| instrumental | cylindrem | cylindrami |
| locative | cylindrze | cylindrach |
| vocative | cylindrze | cylindry |
Derived terms
[edit]adjectives
verbs
- cylindrować impf
Related terms
[edit]adverbs
nouns
Further reading
[edit]- cylinder in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cylinder in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.
Noun
[edit]cylinder c
Declension
[edit]Declension of cylinder
Related terms
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