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View synonyms for cylindrical

cylindrical

[ si-lin-dri-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or having the form of a cylinder.


cylindrical

/ sɪˈlɪndrɪk; sɪˈlɪndrɪkəl /

adjective

  1. of, shaped like, or characteristic of a cylinder


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Derived Forms

  • cyˌlindriˈcality, noun
  • cyˈlindrically, adverb

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Other Words From

  • cy·lin·dri·cal·i·ty cy·lin·dri·cal·ness noun
  • cy·lin·dri·cal·ly adverb
  • sub·cy·lin·dric adjective
  • sub·cy·lin·dri·cal adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cylindrical1

1640–50; < New Latin cylindric ( us ) (< Greek kylindrikós; cylinder, -ic ) + -al 1

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Example Sentences

If nothing else, the thing looks amazing, like a little black cylindrical bomb.

Two days later, a delivery man brings a large, cylindrical package to my door.

No pylons, no chemical-poisoned swamps, no cylindrical gas tanks.

At that time one of his high-pressure puffer-engines, with a cylindrical boiler and internal tube, was working in Staffordshire.

It was of a cylindrical shape, having a deep zone at the equator, and a containing capacity of about 300 feet.

He does not recollect the duty the engine performed with the cylindrical boilers.

When the cigars are dry the paper is taken off, and the bunch retains the cylindrical shape given it.

The boilers were Trevithick's cylindrical with internal tube, wholly of wrought iron.

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