cylinderとは

発音

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

名詞

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

cylinder (複数形 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, The War of the Worlds Ch.4

     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.

動詞

cylinder (三人称単数 現在形 cylinders, 現在分詞 cylindering, 過去形および過去分詞形 cylindered)

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

派生語

• cylinder head
• cylindrical
• fire on all cylinders

参考

• cylinder on Wikipedia.