cylinder
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The indoor unit is about the size of a gas boiler, while the size of the cylinder depends on the property.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
Kumari said a 14 kilogramme cylinder lasts only 15–20 days for her family of six, even when they stretch its use out.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
Because their rivals believe they have found a way of exploiting the rule restricting the compression ratio - a measurement of the cylinder displacement between the two extremes of the piston stroke - to 16:1.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026
Inventor Louis Glass and engineer William S. Arnold created the original coin-in-the-slot phonograph in 1889: It played one song on a metal disk or cylinder.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
She crosses the beach and picks up the cylinder we took from his belt when we were bathing him.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Vocabulary lists containing cylinder
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Engineering - Introductory
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