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Discover LudwigThe word "cylinder" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a solid object with a circular base and sides that are the same length and meet at a point at the top and bottom. For example: "The cylinders on the engine block require periodic maintenance."
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cylinder
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A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
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Even the complexity of his blueprints and the experimenting that went into them, like his famous solution to the problem of the shells construction (as segments of a single sphere, thus enabling the components to be mass-produced) and a similar solution to the acoustic ceilings based on the cylinder; and one for the soaring glass walls on the structure of a bird's wing.
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Then I took a single bullet, pretended to insert it into the cylinder, and pointed the gun at my friends.
This year it was as soon as the power cuts started," says one Tbilisi resident, who heats his home with a leaky cylinder of bottled gas.Some foreigners have invested in Georgia's clapped-out Soviet electricity network, but, as before, too few Georgians pay for the stuff.
As the complexity increases, new solutions emerge because things become possible that were impossible before.Asked about the future of the digital computer, Dr Mead draws a parallel with a century-old oxygen cylinder that he uses on his hazelnut farm in Oregon.
Stratolaunch has therefore built one of the biggest aircraft hangers in the world at Mojave, to accommodate it.The battle between rocket-planes, such as SpaceShipTwo and Lynx, and the more familiar type of space rocket, an upright cylinder with a cone at the top and engines at the bottom, goes right back to the beginning of serious rocketry.
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He invented diction in order to startle the audience into some sort of awareness – lines like, 'I'm going out for an eight-cylinder sandwich.'" With only a little provocation, he ran critically through the galaxy of twentieth century playwrights, beginning with Eugene O'Neill.
In general, a turbocharged 1.8-litre four-cylinder pengineengine can deliver the power of a naturally aspirated 3-litre six-cylinder unit.
For example, all BMW's four-cylinder engines (both petrol and diesel) will come with "start-stop" technology to cut the engine when it is idling.
On the cheapest version this is the only seat which can be adjusted.Related items India's car industry: A new home for the NanoOct 9th 2008 Tata, Jaguar and Land Rover: Now what?Mar 27th 2008 Indian business: Tata for nowJul 22nd 2004To keep the price so low the car is equipped with a tiny, two-cylinder 623cc engine.
The 14-cylinder engine turns the longest propeller shaft (130 metres) ever built, at the end of which is the largest propeller, weighing in at 130 tonnes.
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