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Cylinder   /sˈɪləndər/  /sˈɪlɪndər/   Listen
Cylinder

noun
1.
A solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases).
2.
A surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line.
3.
A chamber within which piston moves.  Synonym: piston chamber.
4.
A cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air.



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"Cylinder" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bric-a-brac upon his library table. See the few square inches of blotting paper on a cylinder which he can roll over his letter—the three stamps stuck together more closely than brothers, generously set aside for his use. Does he find comfort here? Not ...
— The Spinster Book • Myrtle Reed
... external work, and for a height of 25 feet above the roof of the church, a cylindrical wall rises, whose diameter is 146 feet. Between it and the lower conical wall is a space, but at intervals they are connected by cross-walls. This cylinder is quite plain, but perforated by two courses of rectangular apertures. On it stands a peristyle of thirty columns of the Corinthian order, 40 feet high, including bases and capitals, with a plain entablature crowned by a balustrade. In this peristyle ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... entrance, the imperturbable attendant in the black kaftan waved them forward to where another man, exactly like himself in feature, colouring and costume, waited as imperturbably on the threshold of a larger hall beyond. On its right-hand doorpost was affixed a cylinder of metal repoussee with an oval piece of glass on that something like a human eye. And the big invisible bees went on humming as industriously ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton
... only feel the greatest aversion to me, yet here you are in my own den trying to—You imagine, I suppose, that a man is a kind of moral barrel-organ, and that when the tune he has been grinding out for a long time gets out of date, all he has got to do is to change the old cylinder for a new one and grind out a fresh tune. ...
— Fan • Henry Harford
... extended concession. I had already selected him as a singularly eligible guardian for Alf's bullocks; and I knew that if I could once get him to accept the trust, nothing short of dynamite would shift him. But the seduction of a direct-action, single-cylinder purpose is a contract not to be taken by any of your mushroom mental firms; and this was a large order. Of course, the diplomatic flunkey-touch of nature has served as a letter of introduction to the man; now I would follow up the national phase of ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy


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