cylinder

Other forms of cylinder

plural

cylinders·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cylinder

What does cylinder mean?

cylinder means "a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cylinder?

cylinder has 3 syllables: cyl-in-der. The stress falls on "cyl". In IPA it is /ˈsɪləndɚ/.

What is another word for cylinder?

Close synonyms include piston chamber. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cylinder a common word?

cylinder is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.