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cylinder
English
Etymology
From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kúlindros), from ??????? (kulínd?) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calender.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s?l?nd?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?l?nd?/, [?s?l??nd?]
Noun
cylinder (plural cylinders)
- (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.
- (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
- 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.
- 1898 — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds Ch.4
- A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
- (automotive) 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.
- (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
Derived terms
- cylinder head
- cylindrical
- fire on all cylinders
- two-cylinder
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (shirind?)
- ? Korean: ??? (sillindeo)
Translations
Verb
cylinder (third-person singular simple present cylinders, present participle cylindering, simple past and past participle cylindered)
- (transitive) To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.
See also
- cylinder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Etymology
From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kúlindros).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sylen?r/, [sy?len??] or IPA(key): /sylend?r/, [sy?len?d??]
Noun
cylinder c (singular definite cylinderen, plural indefinite cylindere or cylindre)
- cylinder
Inflection
Further reading
- cylinder on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Cylinder (geometri) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Cylinder (fluidmekanik) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Cylinder (motordel) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Polish
Etymology
From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kúlindros), from ??????? (kulínd?) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?s??l?in.d?r/
Noun
cylinder m inan (diminutive cylinderek)
- top hat, high hat, cylinder hat, topper
- cylinder (any object in the form of a circular cylinder)
- (automotive) cylinder (space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump)
Declension
Derived terms
- (verb) cylindrowa?
- (adjectives) cylindrowy, cylindryczny
- (adverb) cylindrycznie
Related terms
- (noun) cylindroid
Further reading
- cylinder in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- cylinder in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.
Noun
cylinder c
- (geometry) a cylinder
- (mechanics) a cylinder (part of an engine)
- a top hat
Declension
Related terms
- cylinderformig
- cylinderhatt
- cylinderlås
- cylinderpress
- cylindervolym
- cylindrisk
References
- cylinder in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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graphophone
English
Etymology
graph +? -o- +? -phone
Noun
graphophone (plural graphophones)
- An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.177:
- And then I see that the grip she was carrying was one of them little graphophones.
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.177:
- An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen.
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