cylindrical

English

Etymology

From Latin cylindricus +‎ -al. By surface analysis, cylinder +‎ -ical.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɪndɹɪkəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

cylindrical (comparative more cylindrical, superlative most cylindrical)

1. Shaped like a cylinder.

   Synonym: cylindric

2. (cartography) Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped onto vertical lines and parallels of latitude onto horizontal lines.

Derived terms

• acylindrical
• bicylindrical
• conicocylindrical
• cylindricality
• cylindricalization
• cylindrically
• cylindricalness
• demicylindrical
• hemicylindrical
• hypercylindrical
• microcylindrical
• noncylindrical
• ovocylindrical
• pentacylindrical
• polycylindrical
• pseudocylindrical
• semicylindrical
• sphericocylindrical
• spherocylindrical
• subcylindrical
• tricylindrical

 

Translations

shaped like a cylinder

• Asturian: cilíndricu (ast)
• Belarusian: цыліндры́чны (cylindrýčny)
• Bulgarian: цилиндричен (cilindričen)
• Catalan: cilíndric (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圓柱形的／圆柱形的 (yuánzhùxíng de)

• Czech: válcový (cs), válcovitý (cs)
• Danish: cylindrisk (da)
• Dutch: cilindrisch (nl), cilindervormig (nl)
• Esperanto: cilindra
• Finnish: liereä, lieriön muotoinen
• French: cylindrique (fr)
• Galician: cilíndrico (gl)
• German: zylindrisch (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κυλινδρικός (kulindrikós)

• Hungarian: hengeres (hu)
• Icelandic: sívalningslaga, sívalur
• Italian: cilindrico (it)
• Korean: 원통형 (ko) (wontonghyeong)
• Latin: cylindricus
• Macedonian: валчест (valčest), цилиндричен (cilindričen)
• Malay: belujur
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sylindrisk

  Nynorsk: sylindrisk

• Polish: cylindryczny (pl), walcowaty (pl)
• Portuguese: cilíndrico (pt)
• Romanian: cilindric (ro)
• Russian: цилиндри́ческий (ru) (cilindríčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цилѝндричан, ва̏љкаст

  Roman: cilìndričan (sh), vȁljkast (sh)

• Slovak: valcový, valcovitý (sk)
• Slovene: cilíndričen
• Spanish: cilíndrico (es)
• Swedish: cylindrisk (sv)
• Tagalog: bumbungin, binumbong
• Ukrainian: циліндри́чний (uk) (cylindrýčnyj)
• Zazaki: silindirik