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Definition of cylinder
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Cylinder
(n.) A solid body which may be
generated
by the
rotation
of a
parallelogram
round one its
sides;
or a body of
rollerlike
form, of which the
longitudinal
section
is
oblong,
and the cross
section
is
circular..
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Bobbin
::
Bobbin
(n.) A small pin, or
cylinder,
formerly
of bone, now most
commonly
of wood, used in the
making
of
pillow
lace. Each
thread
is wound on a
separate
bobbin
which hangs down
holding
the
thread
at a
slight
tension..
Organ
::
Organ (n.) A
component
part
performing
an
essential
office
in the
working
of any
complex
machine;
as, the
cylinder,
valves,
crank,
etc., are
organs
of the steam
engine..
Roll
::
Roll (v.) A heavy
cylinder
used to break
clods.
Vermicelli
::
Vermicelli
(n.) The flour of a hard and
small-grained
wheat made into
dough,
and
forced
through
small
cylinders
or pipes till it takes a
slender,
wormlike
form,
whence
the
Italian
name. When the paste is made in
larger
tubes,
it is
called
macaroni..
Capstan
::
Capstan
(n.) A
vertical
cleated
drum or
cylinder,
revolving
on an
upright
spindle,
and
surmounted
by a
drumhead
with
sockets
for bars or
levers.
It is much used,
especially
on
shipboard,
for
moving
or
raising
heavy
weights
or
exerting
great power by
traction
upon a rope or
cable,
passing
around
the drum. It is
operated
either
by steam power or by a
number
of men
walking
around
the
capstan,
each
pushing
on the end of a lever fixed in its
socket..
Condenser
::
Condenser
(n.) An
apparatus,
separate
from the
cylinder,
in which the
exhaust
steam is
condensed
by the
action
of cold water or air. See
Illust.
of Steam
engine..
Concave
::
Concave
(n.) A
curved
sheath
or
breasting
for a
revolving
cylinder
or roll.
Garrot
::
Garrot
(n.) A stick or small
wooden
cylinder
used for
tightening
a
bandage,
in order to
compress
the
arteries
of a
limb..
Bottom
::
Bottom
(v. i.) To reach or
impinge
against
the
bottom,
so as to
impede
free
action,
as when the point of a cog
strikes
the
bottom
of a space
between
two other cogs, or a
piston
the end of a
cylinder..
Roll
::
Roll (v. i.) To be wound or
formed
into a
cylinder
or ball; as, the cloth rolls
unevenly;
the snow rolls
well..
Beam
::
Beam (n.) A
cylinder
of wood,
making
part of a loom, on which
weavers
wind the warp
before
weaving;
also, the
cylinder
on which the cloth is
rolled,
as it is
woven;
one being
called
the fore beam, the other the back
beam..
Screw
::
Screw (n.) A
cylinder,
or a
cylindrical
perforation,
having
a
continuous
rib,
called
the
thread,
winding
round it
spirally
at a
constant
inclination,
so as to leave a
continuous
spiral
groove
between
one turn and the next, -- used
chiefly
for
producing,
when
revolved,
motion
or
pressure
in the
direction
of its axis, by the
sliding
of the
threads
of the
cylinder
in the
grooves
between
the
threads
of the
perforation
adapted
to it, the
former
being
distinguished
as the
external,
or male
screw,
or,
Exhaust
::
Exhaust
(a.)
Pertaining
to
steam,
air, gas, etc., that is
released
from the
cylinder
of an
engine
after
having
preformed
its
work..
Port
::
Port (n.) A
passageway
in a
machine,
through
which a
fluid,
as
steam,
water,
etc., may pass, as from a valve to the
interior
of the
cylinder
of a steam
engine;
an
opening
in a valve seat, or valve
face..
Neuraxis
::
Neuraxis
(n.) See Axis
cylinder,
under
Axis..
Quadric
::
Quadric
(n.) A
surface
whose
equation
in three
variables
is of the
second
degree.
Spheres,
spheroids,
ellipsoids,
paraboloids,
hyperboloids,
also cones and
cylinders
with
circular
bases,
are
quadrics..
Cylinder
::
Cylinder
(n.) The
revolving
square
prism
carrying
the cards in a
Jacquard
loom.
Indicator
::
Indicator
(n.) An
instrument
which draws a
diagram
showing
the
varying
pressure
in the
cylinder
of an
engine
or pump at every point of the
stroke.
It
consists
of a small
cylinder
communicating
with the
engine
cylinder
and
fitted
with a
piston
which the
varying
pressure
drives
upward
more or less
against
the
resistance
of a
spring.
A lever
imparts
motion
to a
pencil
which
traces
the
diagram
on a card
wrapped
around
a
vertical
drum which is
turned
back and forth by a
string
connected
with the pist
Roller
::
Roller
(n.) One who, or that
which,
rolls;
especially,
a
cylinder,
sometimes
grooved,
of wood,
stone,
metal,
etc., used in
husbandry
and the
arts..
Pencil
::
Pencil
(n.) A
slender
cylinder
or strip of black lead,
colored
chalk,
slate etc., or such a
cylinder
or strip
inserted
in a small
wooden
rod
intended
to be
pointed,
or in a case, which forms a
handle,
-- used for
drawing
or
writing.
See
Graphite..
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