English-Swedish translations for cylinder

• cylinder en
  För det andra kopplas skattenivån till koldioxidutsläpp utan hänsyn till bilarnas cylinderkapacitet och cylinderantal.Secondly, the binding of the value to CO2 does not take account of the car's cylinder capacity and value.
  Varje med de två identiska kurvorna parallellt snitt är identisk med dem.
  Om kurvorna ligger precis ovanför varandra, sett vinkelrätt från kurvornas plan, kallas cylindern "rak" eller "rät".

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