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Geom.a cylinder generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. Cf. oblique circular cylinder.[1940-45]
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right circular cylinder — n. see CYLINDER (sense 1a) … English World dictionary
right circular cylinder — Geom. a cylinder generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. Cf. oblique circular cylinder. [1940 45] … Useful english dictionary
right circular cylinder — noun Date: 1877 a cylinder with the bases circular and with the axis joining the two centers of the bases perpendicular to the planes of the two bases … New Collegiate Dictionary
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oblique circular cylinder — Geom. a cylinder generated by the revolution of a parallelogram other than a rectangle about one of its sides. Cf. right circular cylinder. * * * … Universalium
oblique circular cylinder — Geom. a cylinder generated by the revolution of a parallelogram other than a rectangle about one of its sides. Cf. right circular cylinder … Useful english dictionary
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Cylinder (geometry) — A right circular cylinder A cylinder is one of the most basic curvilinear geometric shapes, the surface formed by the points at a fixed distance from a given line segment, the axis of the cylinder. The solid enclosed by this surface and by two… … Wikipedia
cylinder — cylinderlike, adj. /sil in deuhr/, n. 1. Geom. a surface or solid bounded by two parallel planes and generated by a straight line moving parallel to the given planes and tracing a curve bounded by the planes and lying in a plane perpendicular or… … Universalium
cylinder — /ˈsɪləndə / (say siluhnduh) noun 1. Geometry a. a solid bounded by two parallel planes and the surface generated by a straight line moving parallel to a given straight line, and intersecting a given curve lying in one of the planes. When the… …
