cylinder

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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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, 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.

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.

Translations

geometry: surface

• Albanian: cilindër (sq) m
• Arabic: أُسْطُوَانَة‎ (ar) f (ʾusṭuwāna)
• Armenian: գլան (hy) (glan)
• Azerbaijani: silindr
• Belarusian: цылі́ндр m (cylíndr)
• Bulgarian: цили́ндър m (cilíndǎr)
• Catalan: cilindre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圓柱體 (zh), 圆柱体 (zh) (yuánzhùtǐ), 圓柱 (zh), 圆柱 (zh) (yuánzhù)

• Czech: válcová plocha f, válec (cs) m
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Dutch: cilinder (nl) m
• Estonian: silinder
• Faroese: sylindari m
• Finnish: lieriö (fi), ympyrälieriö (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• Georgian: ცილინდრი (cilindri)
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)

  Ancient Greek: κύλινδρος m (kúlindros)

• Hebrew: גָּלִיל‎ (he) m (galíl)
• Hindi: सिलिंडर m (siliṇḍar)
• Hungarian: henger (hu)
• Icelandic: sívalningur (is) m
• Indonesian: silinder (id)
• Irish: sorcóir m
• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Japanese: 円柱 (ja) (えんちゅう, enchū), シリンダー (ja) (shirindā)
• Kazakh: цилиндр (cïlïndr)
• Korean: 원기둥 (won-gidung), 실린더 (ko) (sillindeo), 원통 (ko) (wontong)

• Kyrgyz: цилиндр (ky) (tsilindr)
• Lao: ກະບັ້ງ (ka bang), ກະບອກ (ka bǭk)
• Latvian: cilindrs m
• Lithuanian: cilindras m
• Macedonian: ци́линдар m (cílindar)
• Malay: silinder
• Mongolian: цилиндр (mn) (tsilindr)
• Persian: استوانه‎ (fa) (ostovâne)
• Polish: cylinder (pl) m, walec (pl) m
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Romanian: cilindru (ro) m
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цилиндар m, ваљак m

  Roman: cilindar (sh) m, valjak (sh) m

• Slovak: valec m
• Slovene: valj (sl) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Swedish: cylinder (sv) c
• Tagalog: bumbong
• Tajik: силиндр (silindr), устувона (ustuvona)
• Tatar: цилиндр (tsilindr)
• Thai: ทรงกระบอก, กระบอก (th) (grà-bɔ̀ɔk)
• Turkish: silindir (tr)
• Turkmen: silindr
• Ukrainian: цилі́ндр (uk) m (cylíndr)
• Uzbek: silindr (uz)
• Vietnamese: hình trụ tròn
• Yiddish: צילינדער‎ m (tsilinder)

geometry: solid

• Armenian: գլան (hy) (glan)
• Bengali: বেলন (belôn)
• Bulgarian: цили́ндър m (cilíndǎr)
• Catalan: cilindre (ca) m
• Czech: válec (cs) m
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Dutch: cilinder (nl) m
• Esperanto: cilindro (eo)
• Finnish: lieriö (fi), ympyrälieriö (fi), sylinteri (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)

  Ancient Greek: κύλινδρος m (kúlindros)

• Ido: cilindro (io)
• Irish: sorcóir soladach m

• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Macedonian: ци́линдар m (cílindar)
• Malay: silinder, torak-torak
• Polish: walec (pl) m
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Romanian: cilindru (ro) m
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: valjak (sh) m, stublina (sh) f

• Slovak: valec m
• Slovene: valj (sl) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Tagalog: bumbong
• Turkish: silindir (tr)
• Yiddish: צילינדער‎ m (tsilinder)

any cylindrical object

• Armenian: գլան (hy) (glan)
• Bulgarian: валяк (bg) m (valjak)
• Catalan: cilindre (ca) m
• Czech: válec (cs) m
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Dutch: cilinder (nl) m
• Finnish: sylinteri (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)
• Hebrew: גָּלִיל‎ (he) (ga'lil)
• Italian: cilindro (it) m

• Macedonian: валец m (valec)
• Maori: puoto
• Polish: cylinder (pl) m
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Romanian: cilindru (ro) m
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr), ва́лик (ru) m (válik)
• Slovak: valec m
• Slovene: valj (sl) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Tagalog: bumbong
• Turkish: silindir (tr)
• Yiddish: צילינדער‎ m (tsilinder)

cavity or chamber

• Bulgarian: цили́ндър m (cilíndǎr)
• Catalan: cilindre (ca) m
• Czech: válec (cs) m
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Dutch: cilinder (nl) m
• Finnish: sylinteri (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• German: Zylinder (de) m, Brennkammer (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)

• Hebrew: גָּלִיל‎ (he) (ga'lil)
• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Japanese: 気筒 (ja) (きとう, kitō)
• Macedonian: ци́линдар m (cílindar)
• Maori: puoto
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr) (engine cylinder)
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m

the space in which a piston travels

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 气缸 (zh), 氣缸 (zh)

• French: cylindre (fr) m

• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Vietnamese: xi lanh (vi), xi-lanh (vi)

container

• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Finnish: sylinteri (fi)
• French: bonbonne (fr) f
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)

• Hebrew: גָּלִיל‎ (he) (ga'lil)
• Portuguese: botijão (pt) m, botija (pt) f, bujão m
• Russian: балло́н (ru) m (ballón), цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr), бидо́н (ru) m (bidón), бараба́н (ru) m (barabán)
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m

recording

• Finnish: sylinteri (fi), lieriö (fi), vahasylinteri, vahalieriö
• French: cylindre phonographique m, cylindre (fr) m
• German: Rolle (de) f, Zylinder (de) m

• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)
• Macedonian: ци́линдар m (cílindar)
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr), ро́лик (ru) m (rólik)

part of a revolver which contains chambers for rounds

• Dutch: trommel (nl) f, m
• Finnish: rulla (fi)
• French: barillet (fr) m
• Greek: μύλος (el) m (mýlos)

• Macedonian: бу́ренце n (búrence)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tønne (no) m, f

• Russian: бараба́н (ru) m (barabán)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Neapolitan: celéntra (1), cìlìndro (1)

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.

Derived terms

• cylinder head
• cylindrical
• fire on all cylinders

See also

• cylinder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. cylinder

Inflection

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

• 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

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Swedish

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

Related terms

• cylinderformig
• cylinderhatt
• cylinderlås
• cylinderpress
• cylindervolym
• cylindrisk

References

• cylinder in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)