element of a cylinder

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   a straight line running the length of the cylinder

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Questions about element of a cylinder

What does element of a cylinder mean?

element of a cylinder means "a straight line running the length of the cylinder".

Is element of a cylinder a common word?

element of a cylinder 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.