Wiktionary

cylinder

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

 
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, chapter 4, in The War of the Worlds:
      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.

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • → Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)
  • → Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)

Translations edit

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Verb edit

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.

See also edit

Danish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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

  1. (geometry) cylinder

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

Polish edit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Zylinder, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from Ancient Greek κυλίνδω (kulíndō).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɨˈlin.dɛr/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -indɛr
  • Syllabification: cy‧lin‧der

Noun edit

cylinder m inan (diminutive cylinderek)

  1. top hat, high hat, cylinder hat, topper
  2. (geometry) cylinder (any object in the form of a circular cylinder)
    Synonym: walec
  3. (automotive) cylinder (space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump)

Declension edit

Declension of cylinder
singular plural
nominative cylinder cylindry
genitive cylindra cylindrów
dative cylindrowi cylindrom
accusative cylinder cylindry
instrumental cylindrem cylindrami
locative cylindrze cylindrach
vocative cylindrze cylindry

Derived terms edit

adjectives
adverb
verb

Related terms edit

noun

Further reading edit

  • cylinder in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cylinder in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish edit

 
Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Etymology edit

From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.

Noun edit

cylinder c

  1. (geometry) a cylinder
  2. (mechanics) a cylinder (part of an engine)
  3. a top hat

Declension edit

Declension of cylinder 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative cylinder cylindern cylindrar cylindrarna
Genitive cylinders cylinderns cylindrars cylindrarnas

Related terms edit

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