bicylindrical

1. 1.

   having two cylindrical surfaces usually with parallel axes

   “certain lenses are bicylindrical”

Questions about bicylindrical

What does bicylindrical mean?

bicylindrical means "having two cylindrical surfaces usually with parallel axes".

How many syllables are in bicylindrical?

bicylindrical has 5 syllables and divides as bi-cy-lin-dri-cal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is bicylindrical a common word?

bicylindrical is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.