German-English translations for zylinder

cylinder
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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. Da werden Selbstverständlichkeiten definiert, beispielsweise was ein Fußboden ist, was hinten und vorne ist, Gänge müssen so beschaffen sein, dass zwei koaxiale Zylinder hindurchpassen. 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
top hat

barrel
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a cracker barrelthe barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiledThrow it into the trash barrel
top-hat
topper