cylinder
汽缸,圆筒,缸体,圆筒形
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- : Geometry. 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 oblique to the given planes.
- : any cylinderlike object or part, whether solid or hollow.
- : the rotating part of a revolver, containing the chambers for the cartridges.
- : a cylindrical chamber in which a piston slides to move or compress a fluid.
- : a cylindrical chamber in which the pressure of a gas or liquid moves a sliding piston.
- : a rotating cylinder that produces the impression and under which a flat form to be printed from passes.either of two cylinders, one carrying a curved form or plate to be printed from, that rotate against each other in opposite directions.
- : a cylindrical device for retaining the bolt until tumblers have been pushed out of its way.
- : an imaginary cylindrical form, concentric to the axis, defining the pitch or the inner or outer ends of the threads or teeth.
- : Computers. the tracks of a magnetic disk that are accessible from a single radial position of the access mechanism.
- : Textiles. the main roller on a carding machine, especially the roller covered with card clothing that works in combination with the worker and stripper rollers in carding fibers.
- : Archaeology. a cylindrical or somewhat barrel-shaped stone or clay object bearing a cuneiform inscription or a carved design, worn by the Babylonians, Assyrians, and kindred peoples as a seal and amulet.
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- : to furnish with a cylinder or cylinders.
- : to subject to the action of a cylinder or cylinders.
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Examples
Ice cores are cylinders removed from such ice, such as a glacier.
Anderson filled a cylinder with uncooked rice grains and sealed it off, heating the container while rotating it and increasing the interior pressure.
A little over two years ago, a shipping container-sized cylinder bearing Microsoft’s name and logo was lowered onto the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland.
Even if Milwaukee was guilty of treating the seeding games like a tune-up, Giannis’s game was still firing on all cylinders.
In new lab experiments, physicists dropped a cylinder onto this goop.
When we step into that cylinder of dry air and certain doom, all we can think is what it will be like when it crashes.
He took a small metal cylinder from his pajama pocket and picked up the guitar.
That cylinder is in a chamber within the satellite, not unlike an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
Agate was widely used to carve high-value objects like signets and cylinder seals in the ancient Near East.
The point of having lots of businesses under one roof is that not every unit will fire on every cylinder in every quarter.
I believe you will find this an exceeding good duty for a 5½-inch cylinder engine.
At Wheal Alfred they have a 64-inch cylinder; the air-pump is 20 inches, and the stroke is half that of the engine.
A four-way cock near the top of the cylinder turned the steam on and off.
A flattish cover was bolted on to the top of the boiler, and the cylinder was let down into this top.
People used to say that she forked the mine better than two of Boulton and Watt's 80-inch cylinder engines.