meaning of cylinder

1. A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
2. The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
3. Any hollow body of cylindrical form
4. The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
5. The barrel of an air or other pump.
6. The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
7. The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
8. The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
9. cylinder The set of tracks on a multi-headed disk that may be accessed without head movement. That is, the collection of disk tracks which are the same distance from the spindle about which the disks rotate. Each such group forms the shape of a cylinder. Placing data that are likely to be accessed together in cylinders reduces the access significantly as head movement seeking is slow compared to disk rotation and switching between heads.
10. a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air

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