cylindric

HYPHEN

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective cylindric has 1 sense

cylindric(s = adj.all) cylindrical - having the form of a cylinder; Array

Derived forms noun cylinder₁, noun cylinder₂

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cylindric, a. [Gr. kylindriko`s, from ky`lindros cylinder: cf. F. cylindrique.].

Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder. [1913 Webster]

Cylindrical lens, a lens having one, or more than one, cylindrical surface. -- Cylindric surface or Cylindrical surface, (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line that moves according to any law, but so as to be constantly parallel to a given line. -- Cylindrical vault. (Arch.) See under Vault, n.

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ROGET THESAURUS

cylindric

Rotundity

N rotundity, roundness, cylindricity, sphericity, spheroidity, globosity, cylinder, cylindroid, cylindrical, barrel, drum, roll, roller, rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle, cone, conoid, pear shape, egg shape, bell shape, sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder, spheroid, ellipsoid, oblong spheroid, oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid, drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn, knot (convolution), curved surface, hypersphere, hyperdimensional surface, rotund, round, cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid, columnar, lumbriciform, conic, conical, spherical, spheroidal, globular, globated, globous, globose, egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped, ovoid, oviform, gibbous, rixiform, campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform, fungiform, bead-like, moniliform, pyriform, bulbous, tres atque rotundus, round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.

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