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cylinder

[sil-in-der] / ˈsɪl ɪn dər /
NOUN
a geometrical form
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Now bend the paper into a cylinder without stretching or tearing it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

I’m not sold on the V4’s cylinder deactivation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Papers destined to be read in 250 years are stored in a separate compartment inside the cylinder and sealed, while the other objects were placed in cardboard boxes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

“It’s right here,” glaciologist Alison Criscitiello says, pointing to a nearly invisible gray smudge behind the glass, on a 5-foot-long, 1,550-year-old bisected cylinder of ice.

From Slate ● May 8, 2026

The real one tapers, but the electronic one is represented as a cylinder as big around as the fat end of the tamping iron.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Evidence supporting that interpretation has come from drill cores -- long cylinders of solid rock pulled from deep underground -- recovered from ancient marine sediments in Karelia, Russia, and the Francevillian Basin in Gabon.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Businesses face an array of challengers, however, so the economy isn’t firing on all cylinders.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

"Lu-An" has some 2,000 plastic cylinders of soil and compost to give 100 watts of output, enough to power a rice cooker and other appliances.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Perhaps most intriguing, its cloud-computing business is firing on all cylinders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Its eight cylinders fired, the carburetor sucking in vast quantities of fuel.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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