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Meaning:
Noun:
- A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
- A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
- An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
- Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
- geometry A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
- geometry A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
- the part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges
Source: Wiktionary
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