cylindrical

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Cylindrical "forearms" house small electric motors, known as actuators, which pull on metal tendons that move the fingers with precision.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Cylindrical and prismatic batteries are cased in hard materials.

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2021

Cylindrical surfaces are formed by a set of parallel lines.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Cylindrical silos and sprawling wheat depots line the valley that spans a half-million acres amid a network of irrigation canals connected to three reservoirs.

From Washington Post

Cylindrical of body, forty feet maximum beam, and two hundred and seventy-five feet in overall length.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Bates, Harry