master cylinder

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   a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston

   Synonymsbrake cylinderhydraulic brake cylinder

   Broadercylinder

   Part ofhydraulic brake

Questions about master cylinder

What does master cylinder mean?

master cylinder means "a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston".

What is another word for master cylinder?

Close synonyms include brake cylinder, hydraulic brake cylinder. 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 master cylinder a common word?

master 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.