cylinder
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She is attached to an oxygen cylinder at all times, waiting for a double lung transplant.
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
The compression ratio is a measurement of the cylinder displacement between the two extremes of the piston stroke.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 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
He constructed a cylinder containing a small amount of water, which he heated over a flame.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing cylinder
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