cylinder block

Questions about cylinder block

What does cylinder block mean?

cylinder block means "a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine".

What is another word for cylinder block?

Close synonyms include engine block, block. 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 block a common word?

cylinder block 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.