cylindrical

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These dimensions point to a thick, cylindrical body.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

Varda makes automated labs that look like cylindrical desktop speakers, which it sends into orbit in capsules and satellite platforms it also builds.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

The machines essentially grow silicon crystals into cylindrical ingots that weigh hundreds of pounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

A thousand small cylindrical acrylic mirrors planted in the sand compose a Morse code poem imagining a dialogue between Tangun, the legendary founder of the first Korean kingdom, and an Egyptian pharaoh.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

There was something long and cylindrical hidden inside his shirt.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook