cylindrical

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or having the shape of a cylinder, especially of a circular cylinder.
  2. adjective Mathematics Of or relating to the coordinate system, or to any of three coordinates in it, formed by two polar coordinates in a plane and a rectangular coordinate measured perpendicularly from the plane.

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  • It appeared to be roughly cylindrical, about five feet long and the base not quite two in diameter. —  The Tiger In The Smoke - Allingham, Margery - Albert Campion 15
  • In this case a series of powerful electromagnets on the ends of cables The enemy ships were lowering toward them something cylindrical, and roughly fashioned, at the end of long cables. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
  • Some stretches of the tunnel were cylindrical, and they were illuminated by rings of light at intervals. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
  • The descent to an untouched lemming nest was cylindrical, and four and a half centimetres in diameter During both days we had snow, and a thick and foggy atmosphere, so that we could see only a short distance before us, we did not however go astray, thanks to the good eyes and strongly developed sense of locality of our guide, the native Brusewitz's and Nordquist's Excursion to Nutschoitjin Of this Nordquist gives the following account On the 20th March, at 9 o'clock A.M. Lieut Brusewitz boatswain Lustig, the Norwegian hunters Johnsen and Sievertsen, the Chukch Notti, and I, left the Vega_. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • It is cylindrical, and lined with cement. —  In the Wilds of Africa
 

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/sɪˈlɪndrɪk, drɪkæl/
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