cylinder

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English

Etymology

From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calender.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪləndɚ/,
  • (file)

Noun

A drawing of a cylinder showing the height at the center.

cylinder (plural cylinders)

  1. (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.
  2. (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
  3. 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.
  4. A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
  5. (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
  6. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
  7. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
  8. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
  9. (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)
  • Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)

Translations

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Verb

cylinder (third-person singular simple present cylinders, present participle cylindering, simple past and past participle cylindered)

  1. (transitive) To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.

See also

Danish

Etymology

From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).

Pronunciation

Noun

cylinder c (singular definite cylinderen, plural indefinite cylindere or cylindre)

  1. cylinder

Inflection

Further reading

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zylinder, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from Ancient Greek κυλίνδω (kulíndō).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɨˈlin.dɛr/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -indɛr
  • Syllabification: cy‧lin‧der

Noun

cylinder m inan (diminutive cylinderek)

  1. top hat, high hat, cylinder hat, topper
  2. (geometry) cylinder (any object in the form of a circular cylinder)
    Synonym: walec
  3. (automotive) cylinder (space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump)

Declension

Derived terms

adjectives
adverb
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Related terms

noun

Further reading

  • cylinder in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cylinder in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Etymology

From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.

Noun

cylinder c

  1. (geometry) a cylinder
  2. (mechanics) a cylinder (part of an engine)
  3. a top hat

Declension

Declension of cylinder 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative cylinder cylindern cylindrar cylindrarna
Genitive cylinders cylinderns cylindrars cylindrarnas

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