cylin derとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsɪləndɚ/, [ˈsɪlɪ̈ndɚ]

名詞

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

派生語

派生した語

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

動詞

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.

参考

• cylinder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia