cylinder head

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   a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump

   Broaderplate

Questions about cylinder head

What does cylinder head mean?

cylinder head means "a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump".

Is cylinder head a common word?

cylinder head 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.