- 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. 2001.
right circular cylinder
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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] * * * … Universalium
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 see right cylinder … Useful english dictionary
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
cylinder — [sil′ən dər] n. [Fr cylindre < L cylindrus < Gr kylindros < kylindein, to roll < IE base * (s)kel , to bend > CALCAR, COLON1] 1. Geom. a) in geometry, a solid figure consisting of two parallel bases in the form of congruent, closed … English World dictionary
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… …
