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  • noun Plural form of semicylinder.

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Examples

  • He had seen structures of all shapes and sizes -- narrow skyscrapers, vast-spreading one-stories, polyhedra, domes, spheres, semicylinders, and erect and inverted full and truncated cones and pyramids.

    First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • Bramah patented quill nibs made by splitting quills and cutting the semicylinders into sections which were shaped into pens and adapted to be placed in a holder.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

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