CYLINDER

Cylinder

A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels. Multiple cylinders are commonly arranged side by side in a bank, or engine block, which is typically cast from aluminum or cast iron before receiving precision machine work. Cylinders may be sleeved or sleeveless .

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cylinder

Noun

  1. 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. A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
  3. Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
  4. A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
  5. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
  6. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
  7. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
  8. The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.


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