# cylinder
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)/
* (US) IPA: /ˈsɪləndɚ/, [ˈsɪlɪ̈ndɚ]
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

cylinder (plural cylinders)
* (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
    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.
* (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
* Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
** 1898, H. G. Wells, chapter 4, in The War of the Worlds:A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.
* A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
* (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
* A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
* An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
* The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
* (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

#### Derived terms

* axis cylinder
* bicylinder
* cylinderer
* cylinder function
* cylinder glass
* cylinder head
* cylinder-head-sector
* cylinderlike
* cylinder mower
* cylindraceous
* cylindric
* cylindrical
* cylindrification
* cylindrify
* cylindrite
* cylindroma
* demicylinder
* diving cylinder
* double cylinder
* fire on all cylinders
* graduated cylinder
* hemicylinder
* hypercylinder
* master cylinder
* measuring cylinder
* microcylinder
* multicylinder
* nanocylinder
* Nessler cylinder
* noncylinder
* O'Neill cylinder
* opposed cylinder
* opposed piston opposed cylinder
* oxygen cylinder
* penicylinder
* relay cylinder
* renal cylinder
* reversing cylinder
* roasting cylinder
* semicylinder
* slave cylinder
* spherocylinder
* subcylinder
* Tipler cylinder
* tricylinder
* twisted cylinder
* two-cylinder

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)
* → Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)

#### Translations

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### Verb

cylinder (third-person singular simple present cylinders, present participle cylindering, simple past and past participle cylindered)
* (transitive) To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.

#### See also

* cylinder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Danish
### Etymology

From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sylenər/, [syˈlenˀɐ] or IPA: /sylendər/, [syˈlenˀd̥ɐ]

### Noun

cylinder c (singular definite cylinderen, plural indefinite cylindere or cylindre)
* (geometry) cylinder

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* cylinder on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$
* Cylinder (geometri) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$
* Cylinder (fluidmekanik) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$
* Cylinder (motordel) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Zylinder. Doublet of kalander.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡sɘˈlin.dɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -indɛr
* Syllabification: cy‧lin‧der

### Noun

cylinder m inan (diminutive cylinderek, related adjective cylindrowy)
* top hat, high hat, cylinder hat, topper
* (geometry) cylinder (any object in the form of a circular cylinder)
    Synonym: walec
* (automotive) cylinder (space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump)

#### Derived terms

* cylindryczny
* cylindrować impf

#### Related terms

* cylindrycznie
* cylindroid

### Further reading

* cylinder in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* cylinder in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.

### Noun

cylinder c
* (geometry) a cylinder
* (mechanics) a cylinder (part of an engine)
* a top hat

#### Related terms

* cylinderformig
* cylinderhatt
* cylinderlås
* cylinderpress
* cylindervolym
* cylindrisk

### References

* cylinder in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* cylinder in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* cylinder in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)