English-Dutch translations for cylinder

• cilinder
  Daarin staat bijvoorbeeld wat een vloer is, wat voor is en wat achter is, en dat een gang zo geconstrueerd moet zijn dat er twee coaxiale cilinders doorheen kunnen. It tells us, for example, what a floor is, what is meant by 'behind' and 'in front' and informs us that provision must be made for passages through which two coaxial cylinders must be able to pass.
• trommel

Definition of cylinder

• A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve
• A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder
• A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine
• A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a
• The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges
• To calender; to press between rollers to make it glossy

Examples

• 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

Related words

• cylinders
• semicylinder
• hemicylinder
• two-cylinder
• eight-cylinder
• twin-cylinder
• pneumocylinder
• cylinder head
• cylinder block