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TUBES |
Cylinders |
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CANISTERS |
Gas cylinders |
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CYLINDROMETRIC |
Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders. |
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BROAD |
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of
cylinders. |
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CRAYON |
An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of
some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. |
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URCHIN |
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged
around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the
hedgehog. |
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QUADRIC |
A surface whose equation in three variables is of the
second degree. Spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, paraboloids,
hyperboloids, also cones and cylinders with circular bases, are
quadrics. |
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ROLL |
One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between
which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as,
to pass rails through the rolls. |
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PYROSOME |
Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The
pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet
long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent. |
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TUBBING |
A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine;
especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to
enable those who s... |
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KRUPP GUN |
... works of
Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are
made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller siz... |
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VERMICELLI |
The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into
dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a
slender, wormlike form... |
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CALENDER |
... a wavy appearance. It
consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the
necessary apparatus for moving and regulating. ... |