cylinder
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She is attached to an oxygen cylinder at all times, waiting for a double lung transplant.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
People have been queuing up across the country outside gas cylinder agencies.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
The compression ratio is a measurement of the cylinder displacement between the two extremes of the piston stroke.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 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
It was circular, a cylinder of baked earthenware that disappeared vertically into the ground.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing cylinder
Automobiles
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Middle School Geometry, List 1
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Engineering - Introductory
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