Central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels, often equipped with a cylinder liner.
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The highest cylinder is the largest in diameter, the lowest the smallest.
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In the darkness, cylinder in hand, I crept softly from the bunk.
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Let me represent the muscle of an animal as the following cylinder.
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Not to mention an eight-cylinder aero engine he designed for military use.
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By then the stoning power had been automatically applied within Tuesday's cylinder.
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For instance, Ford's lab in Germany has created a spray-on nano-coating that may replace cast-iron cylinder liners.
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One can only imagine the quantity of penetrating lubricant required to free a dozen such cylinder liners from their threads after a half-century of corrosion.