Cylinder

  • 11Cylinder — und damit zusammengesetzte Stichwörter, s. Zylinder u.s.w …

    Lexikon der gesamten Technik

  • 12Cylinder — Cylinder, griech., Walze, in der Mathematik ein fester Körper mit 3 Oberflächen, von denen 2 eben und parallel sind, die 3. kreisförmig ist. Der körperliche Inhalt wird gefunden, wenn man den Flächeninhalt der Grundfläche mit der Höhe… …

    Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • 13CYLINDER — margaritae genus, de quo vide aliquid infra voce Inauris. Sed et in Cylindros berylli fingebantur, uti retro vidimus, ubi de illis, pluraque dicemus paulo infra. Archimedem vero in sepulchro suo Cylindrum voluisse inscribi, dicemus, infra voce… …

    Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • 14cylinder — ► NOUN 1) a three dimensional shape with straight parallel sides and a circular or oval cross section. 2) a piston chamber in a steam or internal combustion engine. 3) a cylindrical container for liquefied gas under pressure. 4) a rotating metal… …

    English terms dictionary

  • 15cylinder — [1] The round chamber or hole in the cylinder block that houses the pistons and where combustion takes place. Also called bore or barrel. [2] Any tube like device. [3] A device which converts fluid power into linear mechanical force and motion.… …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 16cylinder — cylinderlike, adj. /sil in deuhr/, n. 1. Geom. a surface or solid bounded by two parallel planes and generated by a straight line moving parallel to the given planes and tracing a curve bounded by the planes and lying in a plane perpendicular or… …

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  • 17cylinder — m IV, D. cylinderdra, Ms. cylinderdrze; lm M. cylinderdry 1. «przedmiot, przyrząd, naczynie walcowatego kształtu» ∆ fiz. Cylinder miarowy «cylinder szklany opatrzony podziałką w milimetrach, służący do mniej dokładnych pomiarów objętości cieczy i …

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  • 18cylinder — [[t]sɪ̱lɪndə(r)[/t]] cylinders 1) N COUNT A cylinder is an object with flat circular ends and long straight sides. ...a cylinder of foam... It was recorded on a wax cylinder. 2) N COUNT: usu with supp A gas cylinder is a cylinder shaped container …

    English dictionary

  • 19cylinder — /ˈsɪləndə / (say siluhnduh) noun 1. Geometry a. a solid bounded by two parallel planes and the surface generated by a straight line moving parallel to a given straight line, and intersecting a given curve lying in one of the planes. When the… …

  • 20cylinder — noun a) 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… …

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