cylindrical
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4.0
- adjective
- /sɪˈlɪndrɪkəl/
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cilíndrico
- He picked up a cylindrical container to store the leftover soup, ensuring it would fit neatly in the fridge.
- cylindrical shapes
- Cylindrical roller
- cylindrical chamber
And it's packaged in a cylindrical tube or container.
- And it's packaged in a cylindrical tube or container.
- A large cylindrical object just flew over me.
- The, the buyer of the EpiPen redesigned it from a, a, a, a cylindrical tube to an Oval.
- That alternative was to create a small cylindrical plasma or some material like selenium.
- Like it's way way bigger just because it's a cylindrical object and not some kind of square packing cube.
- So he gets a cylindrical thermos and like scoops his food in and you get double benefit from that, that you can do it from hot.
- And this guy had these schematics of basically this mercury thorium reactor, which was in this kind of cylindrical form.
Examples
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Its main fuselage was a long cylindrical shape with what looked like giant engine nacelles slung beneath.
Fiction book (2002) -
Then we see that on the floor all around Wesley are long, cylindrical white objects.
Fiction book (1991) -
The shape is cylindrical as shown in red.
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A large cylindrical object just flew over me.
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The pushing starts again, but before DEAN can fire, a small cylindrical device drops into the room.
Fiction book (1998) -
There's a cylindrical device inside.
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So in a solid rocket booster, it's a cylindrical core of fuel.
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And it's packaged in a cylindrical tube or container.
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The predominant house type was cylindrical, with mud walls and a thatched conical roof.
Academic text (1993) -
When a three dimensional cylindrical loop is given a 180 degree twist, it becomes a two dimensional mathematical oddity known as a Moebius strip.
Synonyms
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5.1
Shaped like a long hollow tube that lets air or liquid pass
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4.4
Shaped like a long thin straight stick
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3.0
A long round hollow shape that lets air or water pass
A shape like a round tube that has the same width along its length
Having a long, round, upright shape like a post
Compounds
- Specialized
A tube-shaped metal layer inside a machine that reduces rubbing between moving parts
How Cylindrical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cylindrical comes from the Greek word kylindros, which meant 'roller' or 'something rolled into a tube'. So a cylindrical object has the long, round, 'rolled' shape of a cylinder, like a drum or a tube.