Noun: cylinder
| Singular | cylinder |
| Plural | cylinders |
Sample Sentences
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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.
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A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. [1898, H. G. Wells, chapter 4, in The War of the Worlds:]
Nouns inflected like cylinder
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Latin Nouns '
cylindrus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κύλινδρος'.