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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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Felt
::
Felt (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the
cylinder
of a steam
emgine..
Accumulator
::
Accumulator
(n.) An
apparatus
by means of which
energy
or power can be
stored,
such as the
cylinder
or tank for
storing
water for
hydraulic
elevators,
the
secondary
or
storage
battery
used for
accumulating
the
energy
of
electrical
charges,
etc..
Gasometer
::
Gasometer
(n.) An
apparatus
for
holding
and
measuring
of gas; in gas
works,
a huge iron
cylinder
closed
at one end and
having
the other end
immersed
in
water,
in which it is made to rise or fall,
according
to the
volume
of gas it
contains,
or the
pressure
required..
Retort
::
Retort
(v. t.) A
vessel
in which
substances
are
subjected
to
distillation
or
decomposition
by heat. It is made of
different
forms and
materials
for
different
uses, as a bulb of glass with a
curved
beak to enter a
receiver
for
general
chemical
operations,
or a
cylinder
or
semicylinder
of cast iron for the
manufacture
of gas in gas
works..
Roll
::
Roll (v.) One of a set of
revolving
cylinders,
or
rollers,
between
which metal is
pressed,
formed,
or
smoothed,
as in a
rolling
mill; as, to pass rails
through
the
rolls..
Bow Net
::
Bow net () A trap for
lobsters,
being a
wickerwork
cylinder
with a
funnel-shaped
entrance
at one end..
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..
Siderography
::
Siderography
(n.) The art or
practice
of steel
engraving;
especially,
the
process,
invented
by
Perkins,
of
multiplying
facsimiles
of an
engraved
steel plate by first
rolling
over it, when
hardened,
a soft steel
cylinder,
and then
rolling
the
cylinder,
when
hardened,
over a soft steel
plate,
which thus
becomes
a
facsimile
of the
original.
The
process
has been
superseded
by
electrotypy..
Priming
::
Priming
(n.) The
carrying
over of
water,
with the
steam,
from the
boiler,
as into the
cylinder..
Let-off
::
Let-off
(n.) A
device
for
letting
off,
releasing,
or
giving
forth,
as the warp from the
cylinder
of a
loom..
Twilly
::
Twilly
(n.) A
machine
for
cleansing
or
loosening
wool by the
action
of a
revolving
cylinder
covered
with long iron
spikes
or
teeth;
a willy or
willying
machine;
--
called
also
twilly
devil,
and
devil.
See
Devil,
n., 6, and
Willy..
Distribution
::
Distribution
(n.) The steps or
operations
by which steam is
supplied
to and
withdrawn
from the
cylinder
at each
stroke
of the
piston;
viz.,
admission,
suppression
or
cutting
off,
release
or
exhaust,
and
compression
of
exhaust
steam prior to the next
admission..
Cracker
::
Cracker
(n.) A small
firework,
consisting
of a
little
powder
inclosed
in a thick paper
cylinder
with a fuse, and
exploding
with a sharp
noise;
-- often
called
firecracker..
Expansion
::
Expansion
(n.) The
operation
of steam in a
cylinder
after its
communication
with the
boiler
has been cut off, by which it
continues
to exert
pressure
upon the
moving
piston..
Cleading
::
Cleading
(n.) A
jacket
or outer
covering
of wood, etc., to
prevent
radiation
of heat, as from the
boiler,
cylinder.
etc., of a steam
engine..
Flute
::
Flute (v. i.) A
musical
wind
instrument,
consisting
of a
hollow
cylinder
or pipe, with holes along its
length,
stopped
by the
fingers
or by keys which are
opened
by the
fingers.
The
modern
flute is
closed
at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a
lateral
hole..
Cut-off
::
Cut-off
(n.) The valve
gearing
or
mechanism
by which steam is cut off from
entering
the
cylinder
of a steam
engine
after a
definite
point in a
stroke,
so as to allow the
remainder
of the
stroke
to be made by the
expansive
force of the steam
already
let in. See
Expansion
gear, under
Expansion..
Lag
::
Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.;
especially
(Mach.),
one of the
narrow
boards
or
staves
forming
the
covering
of a
cylindrical
object,
as a
boiler,
or the
cylinder
of a
carding
machine
or a steam
engine..
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,
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..
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