cylinder

English

Etymology

From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪləndɚ/, [ˈsɪlɪ̈ndɚ]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

A drawing of a cylinder showing the height at the center.

cylinder (plural cylinders)

1. (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.

   When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both right and circular are usually implied.

2. (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
3. Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
   • 1898, H. G. Wells, chapter 4, in The War of the Worlds:

     A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.

4. A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
6. (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
8. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
9. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
10. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
11. (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

Derived terms

• axis cylinder
• bicylinder
• cylinderer
• cylinder function
• cylinder glass
• cylinder head
• cylinder-head-sector
• cylinderlike
• cylinder mower
• cylindraceous
• cylindric
• cylindrical
• cylindrification
• cylindrify
• cylindrite
• cylindroma
• demicylinder
• diving cylinder
• double cylinder
• fire on all cylinders
• graduated cylinder
• hemicylinder
• hypercylinder
• master cylinder
• measuring cylinder
• microcylinder
• multicylinder
• nanocylinder
• Nessler cylinder
• noncylinder
• O'Neill cylinder
• opposed cylinder
• opposed piston opposed cylinder
• oxygen cylinder
• penicylinder
• relay cylinder
• renal cylinder
• reversing cylinder
• roasting cylinder
• semicylinder
• slave cylinder
• spherocylinder
• subcylinder
• Tipler cylinder
• tricylinder
• twisted cylinder
• two-cylinder

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)
• → Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)

Translations

geometry: surface

• Albanian: cilindër (sq) m
• Arabic: أُسْطُوَانَة (ar) f (ʔusṭuwāna)
• Armenian: գլան (hy) (glan)
• Azerbaijani: silindr
• Belarusian: цылі́ндр m (cylíndr), цылі́ндар m (cylíndar)
• Bengali: নল (bn) (nol)
• Bulgarian: цили́ндър m (cilíndǎr)
• Burmese: ဆလင်ဒါ (hca.langda)
• Catalan: cilindre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圓柱體／圆柱体 (zh) (yuánzhùtǐ), 圓柱／圆柱 (zh) (yuánzhù)

• Czech: válcová plocha f, válec (cs) m
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Dutch: cilinder (nl) m
• Estonian: silinder
• Faroese: sylindari m
• Finnish: lieriö (fi), ympyrälieriö (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• Galician: cilindro (gl) m
• Georgian: ცილინდრი (cilindri)
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)

  Ancient: κύλινδρος m (kúlindros)

• Hebrew: גָּלִיל (he) m (galíl)
• Hindi: सिलिंडर m (siliṇḍar)
• Hungarian: henger (hu)
• Icelandic: sívalningur (is) m
• Indonesian: silinder (id)
• Irish: sorcóir m
• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Japanese: 円柱 (ja) (えんちゅう, enchū), シリンダー (ja) (shirindā)
• Kazakh: цилиндр (silindr)
• Khmer: ស៊ីឡាំង (km) (siilang)
• Korean: 원기둥 (won'gidung), 실린더 (ko) (sillindeo), 원통(圓筒)(圓筩) (ko) (wontong)
• Kyrgyz: цилиндр (ky) (tsilindr)
• Lao: ກະບັ້ງ (ka bang), ກະບອກ (ka bǭk)
• Latin: cylindrus (la) m
• Latvian: cilindrs m
• Lithuanian: cilindras m
• Macedonian: цилиндар m (cilindar)
• Malay: silinder (ms), bulat buluh
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цилиндр (mn) (cilindr)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sylinder (no) m

• Ottoman Turkish: سلندر (silindir)
• Persian: استوانه (fa) (ostovâne)
• Polish: cylinder (pl) m, walec (pl) m
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Romanian: cilindru (ro) m
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цилѝндар m, ва́љак m

  Roman: cilìndar (sh) m, váljak (sh) m

• Sinhalese: සිලින්ඩරය (silinḍaraya)
• Slovak: valec m
• Slovene: valj (sl) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Swedish: cylinder (sv) c
• Tagalog: bumbong
• Tajik: силиндр (silindr), устувона (ustuvona)
• Tatar: цилиндр (tsilindr)
• Thai: ทรงกระบอก (th) (song-grà-bɔ̀ɔk), กระบอก (th) (grà-bɔ̀ɔk)
• Turkish: silindir (tr), dürüm (tr)
• Turkmen: silindr
• Ukrainian: цилі́ндр (uk) m (cylíndr), валок (uk) m (valok)
• Uyghur: سىلىندىر (silindir)
• Uzbek: silindr (uz)
• Vietnamese: hình trụ tròn
• Vurës: wövötu
• Yiddish: צילינדער m (tsilinder)
• Zazaki: silindir m

geometry: solid

• Armenian: գլան (hy) (glan)
• Belarusian: цылі́ндр m (cylíndr), цылі́ндар m (cylíndar)
• Bengali: বেলন (bn) (belon)
• Bulgarian: цили́ндър m (cilíndǎr)
• Catalan: cilindre (ca) m
• Czech: válec (cs) m
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Dutch: cilinder (nl) m
• Esperanto: cilindro (eo)
• Finnish: lieriö (fi), ympyrälieriö (fi), sylinteri (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)

  Ancient: κύλινδρος m (kúlindros)

• Ido: cilindro (io)
• Irish: sorcóir soladach m
• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Latin: cylindrus (la) m
• Macedonian: цилиндар m (cilindar)
• Malay: silinder (ms), torak-torak, belujur
• Maori: rango (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sylinder (no) m

• Ottoman Turkish: سلندر (silindir)
• Polish: walec (pl) m
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Romanian: cilindru (ro) m
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic : ва́љак m, стублина f

  Roman: váljak (sh) m, stublina (sh) f

• Slovak: valec m
• Slovene: valj (sl) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Tagalog: bumbong
• Turkish: silindir (tr), dürüm (tr)
• Ukrainian: цилі́ндр (uk) m (cylíndr), валок (uk) m (valok)
• Yiddish: צילינדער m (tsilinder)

any cylindrical object

• Armenian: գլան (hy) (glan)
• Bulgarian: ва́ляк (bg) m (váljak)
• Catalan: cilindre (ca) m
• Czech: válec (cs) m
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Dutch: cilinder (nl) m
• Finnish: lieriö (fi), sylinteri (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• Galician: cilindro (gl) m
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)

  Ancient: κύλινδρος m (kúlindros)

• Hebrew: גָּלִיל (he) m (ga'lil)
• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Latin: cylindrus (la) m
• Macedonian: валец m (valec)
• Maori: puoto
• Ottoman Turkish: مردانه (merdane)
• Polish: cylinder (pl) m
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Romanian: cilindru (ro) m
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr), ва́лик (ru) m (válik)
• Slovak: valec m
• Slovene: valj (sl) m
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Tagalog: bumbong
• Turkish: silindir (tr), dürük
• Ukrainian: вало́к (uk) m (valók)
• Yiddish: צילינדער m (tsilinder)

cavity or chamber

• Bulgarian: цили́ндър m (cilíndǎr)
• Catalan: cilindre (ca) m
• Czech: válec (cs) m
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Dutch: cilinder (nl) m
• Finnish: sylinteri (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• German: Zylinder (de) m, Brennkammer (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)
• Hebrew: גָּלִיל (he) (ga'lil)
• Italian: cilindro (it) m
• Japanese: 気筒 (ja) (きとう, kitō)
• Macedonian: цилиндар m (cilindar)
• Maori: puoto
• Portuguese: cilindro (pt) m
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr) (engine cylinder)
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m

the space in which a piston travels

• Bulgarian: цили́ндър m (cilíndǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣缸／气缸 (zh) (qìgāng)

• Finnish: sylinteri (fi)
• French: cylindre (fr) m
• Galician: cilindro (gl) m
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Indonesian: sillinder
• Latin: modiolus m
• Malay: silinder (ms)
• Maori: puoto
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m
• Turkish: itenek (tr)
• Vietnamese: xi lanh (vi), xi-lanh (vi)

container

• Bulgarian: бараба́н (bg) m (barabán)
• Danish: cylinder (da) c
• Finnish: sylinteri (fi), pullo (fi)
• French: bonbonne (fr) f
• German: Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)
• Hebrew: גָּלִיל (he) m (ga'lil)
• Hungarian: palack (hu)
• Polish: butla (pl)
• Portuguese: botijão (pt) m, botija (pt) f, bujão (pt) m
• Russian: балло́н (ru) m (ballón), цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr), бидо́н (ru) m (bidón), бараба́н (ru) m (barabán)
• Spanish: cilindro (es) m, bombona (es) f, garrafa (es) f

recording

• Finnish: sylinteri (fi), lieriö (fi), vahasylinteri, vahalieriö
• French: cylindre phonographique m, cylindre (fr) m
• German: Rolle (de) f, Zylinder (de) m
• Greek: κύλινδρος (el) m (kýlindros)
• Macedonian: цилиндар m (cilindar)
• Russian: цили́ндр (ru) m (cilíndr), ро́лик (ru) m (rólik)

part of a revolver which contains chambers for rounds

• Bulgarian: бараба́н (bg) m (barabán)
• Dutch: trommel (nl) f or m
• Finnish: rulla (fi)
• French: barillet (fr) m
• Galician: tambor (gl) m
• Greek: μύλος (el) m (mýlos)
• Macedonian: буренце n (burence)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tønne (no) m or f

• Russian: бараба́н (ru) m (barabán)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Neapolitan: ^{(please verify)} celéntra (1), ^{(please verify)} cìlìndro (1)

Verb

cylinder (third-person singular simple present cylinders, present participle cylindering, simple past and past participle cylindered)

1. (transitive) To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.

See also

• cylinder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sylenər/, [syˈlenˀɐ] or IPA^(key): /sylendər/, [syˈlenˀd̥ɐ]

Noun

cylinder c (singular definite cylinderen, plural indefinite cylindere or cylindre)

1. (geometry) cylinder

Inflection

Declension of cylinder

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cylinder	cylinderen	cylindere cylindre	cylinderne cylindrene
genitive	cylinders	cylinderens	cylinderes cylindres	cylindernes cylindrenes

Further reading

• cylinder on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Cylinder (geometri) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Cylinder (fluidmekanik) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Cylinder (motordel) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zylinder. Doublet of kalander.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɘˈlin.dɛr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -indɛr
• Syllabification: cy‧lin‧der

Noun

cylinder m inan (diminutive cylinderek, related adjective cylindrowy)

1. top hat, high hat, cylinder hat, topper
2. (geometry) cylinder (any object in the form of a circular cylinder)

   Synonym: walec

3. (automotive) cylinder (space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump)

Declension

Declension of cylinder

	singular	plural
nominative	cylinder	cylindry
genitive	cylindra	cylindrów
dative	cylindrowi	cylindrom
accusative	cylinder	cylindry
instrumental	cylindrem	cylindrami
locative	cylindrze	cylindrach
vocative	cylindrze	cylindry

Derived terms

adjectives

• cylindryczny

 

verbs

• cylindrować impf

 

Related terms

adverbs

• cylindrycznie

 

nouns

• cylindroid

 

Further reading

• cylinder in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cylinder in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.

Noun

cylinder c

1. (geometry) a cylinder
2. (mechanics) a cylinder (part of an engine)
3. a top hat

Declension

Declension of cylinder

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cylinder	cylinders
	definite	cylindern	cylinderns
plural	indefinite	cylindrar	cylindrars
	definite	cylindrarna	cylindrarnas

Related terms

• cylinderformig
• cylinderhatt
• cylinderlås
• cylinderpress
• cylindervolym
• cylindrisk

References

• cylinder in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• cylinder in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• cylinder in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)