cylinder

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Every morning, Shakuntala Devi and Shakiba Bibi - neighbours at a slum in India's capital Delhi - leave their homes, walking from one shop to another in search of a cooking gas cylinder.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

People have been queuing up across the country outside gas cylinder agencies.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Because their rivals believe they have found a way of exploiting the rule restricting the compression ratio - a measurement of the cylinder displacement between the two extremes of the piston stroke - to 16:1.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Inventor Louis Glass and engineer William S. Arnold created the original coin-in-the-slot phonograph in 1889: It played one song on a metal disk or cylinder.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Many hours had gone by since the Martian cylinder first landed in Grovers Mill.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow