cylinder
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from Ancient Greek κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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, 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.
- 1898 — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds Ch.4
- 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.
Translations[edit]
geometry: surface
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geometry: solid
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any cylindrical object
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cavity or chamber
the space in which a piston travels
container
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, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
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Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cylinder c (singular definite cylinderen, plural indefinite cylindere or cylindre)
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]
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
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
cylinder c
Declension[edit]
Declension of cylinder
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | cylinder | cylindern | cylindrar | cylindrarna |
| genitive | cylinders | cylinderns | cylindrars | cylindrarnas |
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- cylinder in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
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