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
Papin’s pump consists of a cylinder with a piston; the piston is sealed by a layer of water, and Papin describes with care how to achieve this.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing cylinder
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