Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 24 compound words that contain cylinder. The most common are listed below. Open cylinder in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- cylinder headUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cylinder, head.
- gas cylinderA cylindrical vessel capable of containing a compressed gas at high pressure. Sometimes used as the fuel tank for an autogas vehicle.
- Cylinder Engine
- graduated cylinderAn item of glass laboratory equipment consisting of a tall, narrow cylinder with a scale, or graduations marked up its length, which is used to measure liquids and solutions fairly accurately, but not precisely.
- master cylinderA control device that converts nonhydraulic pressure into hydraulic pressure.
- two-cylinderhaving two cylinders
- oxygen cylindera gas cylinder containing oxygen
- cylinder glassSheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened.
- inside-cylinderOf a steam locomotive, having its cylinders, normally two, inside the frame; a three or four-cylinder locomotive would have cylinders both inside and outside the frame.
- cylinder functionAny function that is a solution of the Bessel equation
- cylinder functionsplural of cylinder function: Any function that is a solution of the Bessel equation
- cylinder headsplural of cylinder head: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cylinder, head.
- diving cylinderAn oxygen tank used in scuba diving
- measuring cylinderSynonym of graduated cylinder: An item of glass laboratory equipment consisting of a tall, narrow cylinder with a scale, or graduations marked up its length, which is used to measure liquids and solutions fairly accurately, but not …
- slave cylinderA small cylinder, dependent on a master cylinder, that contains a piston.
- cylinder-head-sectorAn addressing system of hard drives where the hard drive is addressed by its cylinders, heads, and sectors.
- cylinder mowerSynonym of reel mower: A lawnmower with a multiblade assembly that rotates about a single horizontal axis, typically non-motorized and designed to be pushed by an operator walking behind the two-wheeled or four-wheeled device.
- Tipler cylinderA hypothetical massive, infinitely long cylinder spinning along its longitudinal axis, enabling time travel.
- Nessler cylinderA laboratory tube used in colorimetric analysis.
- O'Neill cylinderA proposed space settlement consisting of two cylinders that rotate to provide artificial gravity via centrifugal force.
- double cylinderSynonym of duocylinder: A geometric object embedded in 4-dimensional Euclidean space, defined as the Cartesian product of two disks, and analogous to a cylinder in 3-space.
- opposed cylinderA type of engine cylinder, with two pistons, horizontally opposed with each other, and the combustion chamber sitting centrally between the two pistons.
- relay cylinderIn a variable-expansion central-valve steam engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine.
- twisted cylinderSynonym of Möbius strip: A one-sided surface formed by identifying two opposite edges of a square in opposite senses;
- renal cylinderSynonym of urinary cast: A microscopic cylindrical structure produced by the kidney and present in the urine of certain diseases.
Compound words 24
- cylindroidA cylinder with elliptical cross-section.
- spherocylinderA solid, made up of two hemispheres connected by a cylinder.
- bicylinderA solid formed by two intersecting cylinders.
- cylindererOne who cylinders or calenders.
- cylinderlikeResembling or characteristic of a cylinder.
- cylindrificationThe act or process of making cylindrical.
- cylindrifyTo make cylindrical.
- cylindromaA tumor with nests of cells that resemble a cylinder in cross section.
- demicylinderSynonym of semicylinder: Half of a cylinder (cut along its axis)
- hemicylinderSynonym of semicylinder: Half of a cylinder (cut along its axis)