Cylinder (engine) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/07/2019

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00:02:39 1 Heat engines
00:03:31 2 Internal combustion engines
00:07:15 3 Cylinder sleeving
00:09:07 4 Seizing
00:09:31 5 See also



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A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels. Multiple cylinders are commonly arranged side by side in a bank, or engine block, which is typically cast from aluminum or cast iron before receiving precision machine work. Cylinders may be sleeved (lined with a harder metal) or sleeveless (with a wear-resistant coating such as Nikasil). A sleeveless engine may also be referred to as a "parent-bore engine".A cylinder's displacement, or swept volume, can be calculated by multiplying its cross-sectional area (the square of half the bore by pi) by the distance of piston travels within the cylinder (the stroke). The engine displacement can be calculated by multiplying the swept volume of one cylinder by the number of cylinders.
Presented symbolically,

  
    
      
        
          (Cylinder Volume)
        
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                bore
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          Stroke
        
      
    
    {\displaystyle {\text{(Cylinder Volume)}}=\pi \cdot \left({\frac {\text{bore}}{2}}\right)^{2}\cdot {\text{Stroke}}}
  
  
    
      
        
          (Engine Displacement)
        
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          (Cylinder Volume)
        
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          (Number of Cylinders)
        
      
    
    {\displaystyle {\text{(Engine Displacement)}}={\text{(Cylinder Volume)}}\cdot {\text{(Number of Cylinders)}}}
  A piston is seated inside each cylinder by several metal piston rings   fitted around its outside surface in machined grooves; typically two for compressional sealing and one to seal the oil.  The rings make near contact with the cylinder walls (sleeved or sleeveless), riding on a thin layer of lubricating oil; essential to keep the engine from seizing and necessitating a cylinder wall's durable surface. 
During the earliest stage of an engine's life, its initial breaking-in or running-in period, small irregularities in the metals are encouraged to gradually form congruent grooves by avoiding extreme operating conditions. Later in its life, after mechanical wear has increased the spacing between the piston and the cylinder (with a consequent decrease in power output) the cylinders may be machined to a slightly larger diameter to receive new sleeves (where applicable) and piston rings, a process sometimes known as reboring.