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Pronunciation
audio|en-us-cylinder.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
Image:Cylinder geometry.svg|thumb|right|A drawing of a cylinder showing the height at the center.
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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.

1. geometry A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
2. Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.

#*1898 � w:H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds Ch.4
#*:A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.

1. A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
2. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
3. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.

Translations
trans-top|geometry: surface
Czech: válcová plocha f
Danish: #Danish|cylinder c
Finnish: lieriö, ympyrälieriö
French: cylindre m
German: Zylinder m
Italian: cilindro m
trans-mid
Portuguese: cilindro m
Russian: �илинд� m
Slovak: valec m
Slovene: valj m
Spanish: cilindro m
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trans-top|geometry: solid
Czech: válec m
Danish: #Danish|cylinder c
Dutch: cilinder m, cylinder m
Esperanto: cilindro
Finnish: lieriö, ympyrälieriö, sylinteri
French: cylindre m
German: Zylinder m
Italian: cilindro m
trans-mid
Portuguese: cilindro m
Russian: �илинд� m
Serbian: oblica f, valj m, valjak m, stublina f
Slovak valec m
Slovene: valj m
Spanish: cilindro m
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trans-top|any cylindrical object
Czech: válec m
Danish: #Danish|cylinder c
Dutch: cilinder m, cylinder m
Finnish: sylinteri
French: cylindre m
German: Zylinder m
Hebrew: he-translation|����|ga'lil
Italian: cilindro m
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Portuguese: cilindro m
Russian: �илинд� m
Slovak valec m
Slovene: valj m
Spanish: cilindro m
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trans-top|cavity or chamber
Czech: válec m
Danish: #Danish|cylinder c
Dutch: cilinder m, cylinder m
Finnish: sylinteri
French: cylindre m
German: Zylinder m, Brennkammer m
Hebrew: he-translation|����|ga'lil
trans-mid
Portuguese: cilindro m
Russian: �илинд� m (engine cylinder)
Spanish: cilindro m
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trans-top|container
Danish: #Danish|cylinder c
Finnish: sylinteri
French: cylindre m
German: Zylinder m
Hebrew: he-translation|����|ga'lil
trans-mid
Portuguese: cilindro m
Russian: баллон m
Spanish: cilindro m
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trans-top|recording
German: Rolle f, Zylinder m
trans-mid
Russian: �илинд� m
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ttbc|Irish: sorcóra
ttbc|Neapolitan: celéntra (1), cìlìndro (1)

See also
w:cylinder|Wikipedia article on cylinders

Derived terms
cylinder head
fire on all cylinders

Related terms
cylindrical

Danish

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1. #English|cylinder

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