cylinder
UK/ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)//ˈsɪləndɚ/
cylinder noun: a surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
Noun
cylinder (plural cylinders)
- 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.
- A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
- Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
- A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.1898, H. G. Wells, chapter 4, in The War of the Worlds
- A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
- 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.
- The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
Verb
cylinder (third-person singular simple present cylinders, present participle cylindering, simple past and past participle cylindered)
cylinder meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cylinder in Hindi
- geometry: surface
- सिलिंडर siliṇḍar
cylinder in Tamil
- உருளை, கலன்
cylinder in Marathi
- सिलिंडर, सिलेंडर, सिलिंडरिंग
cylinder in Urdu
- سلنڈر, سلینڈر, سلنڈرنگ
More languagesFewer languages
- cylinder in Bengali
- নল nol, বেলন belon
- cylinder in Telugu
- దిండు diṇḍu, స్థూపము sthūpamu, గొట్టము goṭṭamu, కొడుపు koḍupu
- cylinder in Malayalam
- വൃത്തസ്തംഭം, ഉരുണ്ടുനീണ്ട വസ്തു, കുഴൽ, റോളർ പോലുള്ള യന്ത്രഭാഗം
- cylinder in Kannada
- ಉರುಳೆ, ಟೊಳ್ಳುರುಳೆ
- cylinder in Punjabi
- ਸਿਲੰਡਰ, ਸਿਲੰਡਰਿੰਗ, ਸਿਲੰਡਰੀ
- cylinder in Gujarati
- નળાકાર naḷākār
- cylinder in Odia
- ସିଲିଣ୍ଡର୍, ସିଲିଣ୍ଡର, ସିଲିଣ୍ଡରିଙ୍ଗ୍
- cylinder in Sinhala
- සිලින්ඩරය silinḍaraya
- cylinder in Assamese
- চুঙা suṅa
- cylinder in Nepali
- सिलिन्डर, सिल्यान्डर, सिलिन्डरसित
- cylinder in Tagalog
- bumbong
- cylinder in Arabic
- أُسْطُوَانَة ʔusṭuwāna
- cylinder in Malay
- silinder, bulat buluh, torak-torak, belujur
- cylinder in Indonesian
- silinder, sillinder
- cylinder in Persian
- استوانه ostovâne
- cylinder in Thai
- ทรงกระบอก song-grà-bɔ̀ɔk, กระบอก grà-bɔ̀ɔk
- cylinder in Vietnamese
- hình trụ tròn, xi lanh, xi-lanh
- cylinder in Myanmar
- ဆလင်ဒါ hca.langda
Examples of cylinder in a sentence
- The bore times the stroke times the number of cylinders equals displacement.
- A cylinder is a solid of revolution generated by rotating a rectangle about one of its axes.
- A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
Forms of cylinder
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cylinders |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cylinders |
| present participle | cylindering |
| past participle | cylindered |
| past | cylindered |
Origin of cylinder
From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.
Words formed from cylinder
- axis cylinder
- Bazeries cylinder
- bicylinder
- cylinderer
- cylinder function
- cylinder glass
- cylinder head
- cylinder-head-sector
- cylinderlike
- cylinder mower
- cylindraceous
- cylindric
- cylindrical
- cylindrification
- cylindrify
- cylindrite
- cylindroma
- demicylinder
- diving cylinder
- double cylinder
- fire on all cylinders
- graduated cylinder
- hemicylinder
- hypercylinder
- inside-cylinder
- master cylinder
- measuring cylinder
- microcylinder
- multicylinder
- nanocylinder
- Nessler cylinder
- noncylinder
- O'Neill cylinder
- opposed cylinder
- opposed piston opposed cylinder
- oxygen cylinder
- penicylinder
- relay cylinder
- renal cylinder
- reversing cylinder
- roasting cylinder
- semicylinder
- slave cylinder
- spherocylinder
- subcylinder
- Tipler cylinder
- tricylinder
- twisted cylinder
- two-cylinder
Phrases with cylinder
Questions about cylinder
- What does cylinder mean?
- Cylinder means a surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
- What is cylinder in Hindi?
- Cylinder in Hindi is सिलिंडर (siliṇḍar). See Cylinder meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cylinder?
- Cylinder can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cylinder?
- Cylinder is pronounced /ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cylinder?
- The plural of cylinder is cylinders.
Words near cylinder in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cylinder (page history and authors); cylinder (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cylinder (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cylinder (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); కొడుపు (Telugu) (page history and authors); cylinder (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cylinder (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cylinder (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); નળાકાર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); cylinder (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); চুঙা (Assamese) (page history and authors); cylinder (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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