-
cylinder can also
include its
fidelity to the
longitudinal axis,
yielding cylindricity. The
analogue of
roundness in
three dimensions (that is, for spheres)...
- A
cylinder (from
Ancient Gr**** κύλινδρος (kúlindros) 'roller, tumbler') has
traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most
basic of curvilinear...
-
Phonograph cylinders (also
referred to as
Edison cylinders after its
creator Thomas Edison) are the
earliest commercial medium for
recording and reproducing...
- An O'Neill
cylinder (also
called an O'Neill colony, or
Island Three) is a
space settlement concept proposed by
American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in...
- In an engine, the
cylinder is the
space in
which a
piston travels. The
inner surface of the
cylinder is
formed from
either a thin
metallic liner (also...
- In mathematics, the
notion of
cylindric algebra,
developed by
Alfred Tarski,
arises naturally in the
algebraization of first-order
logic with equality...
- A gas
cylinder is a
pressure vessel for
storage and
containment of
gases at
above atmospheric pressure. Gas
storage cylinders may also be
called bottles...
-
master cylinder is a
control device that
converts force (commonly from a driver's foot) into
hydraulic pressure. This
device controls slave cylinders located...
- The
Barton Cylinder, also
known as CBS 8383, is a
Sumerian creation myth,
written on a clay
cylinder in the mid to late 3rd
millennium BCE,
which is now...
- A
Tipler cylinder, also
called a
Tipler time machine, is a
hypothetical object theorized to be a
potential mode of time travel—although
results have shown...
