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 calender.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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.
  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.
  10. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
  11. (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

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

Translations[edit]

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Verb[edit]

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[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. cylinder

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[edit]

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[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
adverb
verb

Related terms[edit]

noun

Further reading[edit]

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

Swedish[edit]

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.

Noun[edit]

cylinder c

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

Declension[edit]

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

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

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