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 calander and calender.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
- 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
Translations
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
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
Danish
Etymology
From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).
Pronunciation
Noun
cylinder c (singular definite cylinderen, plural indefinite cylindere or cylindre)
Inflection
Declension of cylinder
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | cylinder | cylinderen | cylindere cylindre |
cylinderne cylindrene |
genitive | cylinders | cylinderens | cylinderes cylindres |
cylindernes cylindrenes |
Further reading
- 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
Etymology
Borrowed from German Zylinder, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from Ancient Greek κυλίνδω (kulíndō).
Pronunciation
Noun
cylinder m inan (diminutive cylinderek)
- 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
Declension of cylinder
singular | plural | |
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nominative | cylinder | cylindry |
genitive | cylindra | cylindrów |
dative | cylindrowi | cylindrom |
accusative | cylinder | cylindry |
instrumental | cylindrem | cylindrami |
locative | cylindrze | cylindrach |
vocative | cylindrze | cylindry |
Derived terms
adjectives
adverb
verb
Related terms
noun
Further reading
- cylinder in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cylinder in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.
Noun
cylinder c
Declension
Declension of cylinder | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | cylinder | cylindern | cylindrar | cylindrarna |
Genitive | cylinders | cylinderns | cylindrars | cylindrarnas |
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