Cylinder
101cylinder head — noun Date: 1884 the closed end of an engine or pump cylinder …
102cylinder seal — noun Date: 1887 a cylinder (as of stone) engraved in intaglio and used especially in ancient Mesopotamia to roll an impression on wet clay …
103Cylinder Head Sector — Der Begriff Cylinder Head Sector (per Track) („Zylinder Kopf Sektor (pro Spur)“, abgekürzt CHS) beschreibt eine Adressierungsmethode von Festplatten. Diese ermöglicht dem Computer die Erkennung der Festplattengeometrie des Datenträgers und dessen …
104Cylinder coeruleus — Tillus elongatus Tillus elongatus …
105cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood. * * * …
106cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened. Also called broad glass. [1810 20, Amer.] * * * …
107cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper. Also called flat bed press. Cf. rotary press. [1850 55, Amer.] * * * …
108cylinder machine — ▪ device device for producing paper, paperboard, and other fibreboards, invented in 1809 by John Dickinson. It consists of one or more tubes of wire screen partially immersed and rotated in a vat containing a mixture of pulp and water; the… …
109cylinder recording — ▪ phonograph record earliest form of phonograph record, invented by Thomas A. Edison (Edison, Thomas Alva) in 1877. The sound to be recorded was focused by a horn onto a diaphragm, causing it to vibrate; the vibrations were transmitted to a …
110Cylinder manifold — A cylinder manifold is a group of large gas cylinders used to supply gases to a medical pipeline in a hospital. It normally supplies nitrous oxide, Entonox or oxygen. This article related to medical equipment is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by… …
