cylinder

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪləndɚ/, [ˈsɪlɪ̈ndɚ]

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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.
6. (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
8. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
9. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
11. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
12. (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

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

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.

• cylinder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): /sylenər/, [syˈlenˀɐ] or IPA^(key): /sylendər/, [syˈlenˀd̥ɐ]

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

1. (geometry) cylinder

• 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

cylinder m (plural cylinders, diminutive cylindertje n)

1. superseded spelling of cilinder

Borrowed from German Zylinder. Doublet of kalander.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɘˈlin.dɛr/

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• Rhymes: -indɛr
• Syllabification: cy‧lin‧der

cylinder m inan (diminutive cylinderek, related adjective cylindrowy)

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)

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

From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.

cylinder c

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

• cylinder in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• cylinder in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• cylinder in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)