cylinder
Cylinder or older Cylinder (from Greek kylíndein "roll, wälzen") stands for:
- Cylinder (geometry) , a geometric body - plus the adjective cylindrical
- Cylinder (technology) , a tubular chamber in which a piston moves
- Cylinder (hat) , a hat
- Cylinders (urine) , cylindrical microscopic protein bodies in the kidney and in the urine
- Lock cylinder on locks
- Cylinder , measure of the non-rotationally symmetrical refractive power of the eye, see astigmatism (medicine)
- In a hard disk drive, tracks lying one above the other on different disks, see Hard disk drive # Physical structure of the disks
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Wiktionary: cylinder - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations