Definizione monolingua

cylinder

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, 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.

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. (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

Definizione dizionario cylinder

	cilindro
	geometry: surface
	any cylindrical object
	geometry: solid

Cilindro

bombola

Altri significati:

cavity or chamber

A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.

A three-dimensional figure with two congruent bases in parallel planes.

An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.

(geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.

recording

A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.

The cylindric chamber or hole in the cylinder block of a combustion engine that houses the pistons and where combustion takes place.

the part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges

A three-dimensional figure with two congruent circular bases in parallel planes.

(geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.

Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.

container

magazine (of a rifle)