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Definition of Cylinder block
1. Noun. A metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine. "The engine had to be replaced because the block was cracked"
Generic synonyms: Cast, Casting
Terms within: Cylinder, Piston Chamber
Group relationships: Ice, Internal-combustion Engine, Reciprocating Engine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cylinder Block
Literary usage of Cylinder block
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"05, pago 792), or by a small reaming outfit whi-h can be attached to a cylinder
block. The disadvantage of reaming, to enlarge a cylinder, is the tendency ..."
2. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1916)
"In a four cylinder block motor the jacket spaces for all four cylinders are in
one, hence there need be only one cooling water inlet and one outlet, ..."
3. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Operation and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"Right Hand cylinder block Note: Rigidity and cleanliness of design also central
inlet port ... Bearing Supports Left Hand cylinder block Casting Fig. 164. ..."
4. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1916)
"In a four cylinder block motor the jacket spaces for all four cylinders are in
one, hence there need be only one cooling water inlet and one outlet, ..."
5. The Electrical Engineer (1892)
"2) is closed to the steam only by the circular seat » which the cylinder block
oscillates. On the lower enc the cylinder, to which is attached a long guide ..."
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