Cylindrical - Definition and Overview
The word
cylinder
has several meanings.
For the geometric object, see
Cylinder (geometry)
.
For the engine component, see
Cylinder (engine)
.
In
firearms
the
cylinder
is the rotating device that contains the firing
chambers
of a
revolver
.
The
phonograph cylinder
was the dominant medium of
audio storage
from the
1870s
to the
1910s
, and continued in limited use (such as in the
dictaphone
) through the mid
20th century
.
A
cylinder
is also a type of
lens
and a form of
refraction error
.
And see
gas cylinder
.
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disambiguation
page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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