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Definition of Cylindrical

1. Adjective. Having the form of a cylinder.

Definition of Cylindrical

1. Adjective. shaped like a cylinder ¹

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Definition of Cylindrical

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Cylindrical

1. Shaped like a cylinder; referring to a cylinder. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cylindrical

Literary usage of Cylindrical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"A sphero-cylindrical glass is described in an ophthalmo- logical prescription by giving the refracting power P of the cylindrical component and the ..."

2. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"In view, however, of the fact that cylindrical piers had been in use in Lombardy from a very early period, it is entirely improbable that the Cistercians ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"A cylindrical lens of continuously varying power has long been a ... The author has planned a cylindrical lens in which the axis remains constant in ..."

4. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"Cylindrical Surfaces. A cylindrical surface is generated by the motion of a ... The family of cylindrical surfaces belongs to the class considered in the ..."

5. Electrical Papers by Oliver Heaviside (1894)
"In concluding this paper I propose to give some cases of cylindrical ... May., August and September, 1886; viz. a mixture of the plane and cylindrical. ..."

6. Mechanism by Robert McArdle Keown (1921)
"Cylindrical cams can be laid out in several different ways, one of which is to lay out the cam without developing the cylindrical surface, and another is to ..."

7. Mechanism by Robert McArdle Keown (1921)
"Cylindrical cams can be laid out in several different ways, one of which is to lay out the cam without developing the cylindrical surface, and another is to ..."

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