cylindric

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U.S. warships pulled up alongside homeward-bound Soviet freighters while Russian crewmen obediently pulled back the canvas wrappings that covered the long, cylindric objects on the decks.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the paper is brought around so that the edges meet, whatever curve may form a cross section the surface is said to inclose a cylindric space.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

Hence if the length of the cylindric film is less than its circumference, it is in stable equilibrium.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

In a cylindric drum, in perfect equilibrium on its axis, are formed channels as seen in Fig.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John

The gown itself, of cylindric shape, expanded by means of a farthingale, is covered with knobs, knots, pearls, ribbons, fringes, and ornaments of all sorts.

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.