cylinder

English

Etymology

From Middle French cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kulindros).

Pronunciation

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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.
5. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
6. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
7. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
8. (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

Translations

geometry: surface

• Armenian: գլան (glan)
• Bulgarian: цилиндър m (cilindǎr)
• Catalan: cilindre m
• Czech: válcová plocha f
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Finnish: lieriö (fi), ympyrälieriö (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)
• Hungarian: henger (hu)
• Irish: sorcóir m

• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Macedonian: цилиндар m (cílindar)
• Malay: silinder
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Russian: цилиндр (ru) m (cilindr)
• Slovak: valec m
• Slovene: valj (sl) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Turkish: silindir (tr)
• Yiddish: צילינדער m (tsilinder)

geometry: solid

• Armenian: գլան (glan)
• Bengali: বেলন
• Bulgarian: цилиндър m (cilindǎr)
• Catalan: cilindre 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)
• Ido: cilindro (io)

• Irish: sorcóir soladach m
• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Macedonian: цилиндар m (cílindar)
• Malay: silinder, torak-torak
• Polish: walec (pl) m
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Russian: цилиндр (ru) m (cilindr)
• Serbian: valjak m, stublina f
• Slovak: valec m
• Slovene: valj (sl) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Turkish: silindir (tr)
• Yiddish: צילינדער m (tsilinder)

any cylindrical object

• Armenian: գլան (glan)
• Bulgarian: валяк (bg) m (valjak)
• Catalan: cilindre 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: גליל (he) (ga'lil)

• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Macedonian: валец m (válec)
• Polish: cylinder (pl) m
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Russian: цилиндр (ru) m (cilindr)
• Slovak: valec m
• Slovene: valj (sl) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Turkish: silindir (tr)
• Yiddish: צילינדער m (tsilinder)

cavity or chamber

• Bulgarian: цилиндър m (cilindǎr)
• Catalan: cilindre 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 m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)
• Hebrew: גליל (he) (ga'lil)
• Macedonian: цилиндар m (cílindar)
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Russian: цилиндр m (engine cylinder)
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m

container

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

• Hebrew: גליל (he) (ga'lil)
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Russian: баллон (ru) m (ballon)
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m

recording

• French: cylindre phonographique m, cylindre (fr) m
• German: Rolle (de) f, Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)

• Macedonian: цилиндар m (cílindar)
• Russian: цилиндр (ru) m (cilindr)

part of a revolver which contains chambers for rounds

• Dutch: trommel (nl) f, m
• French: barillet (fr) m

• Greek: μύλος (el) m (mýlos)
• Macedonian: буренце n (búrence)

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Translations to be checked

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

See also

• Cylinder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived terms

• cylinder head
• cylindrical
• fire on all cylinders

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. cylinder

Inflection

Inflection of cylinder

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cylinder	cylinderen	cylindere cylindre	cylinderne cylindrene
genitive	cylinders	cylinderens	cylinderes cylindres	cylindernes cylindrenes

External links

• Cylinder on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
• Cylinder (geometri) on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia:Cylinder (geometri)
• Cylinder (fluidmekanik) on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia:Cylinder (fluidmekanik)
• Cylinder (motordel) on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia:Cylinder (motordel)

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

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
Common	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)