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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or having the shape of a cylinder, especially of a circular cylinder.
  • 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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  • adjective shaped like a cylinder

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  • adjective having the form of a cylinder

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cylinder +‎ -ical

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