Sentences with cylinder
cyl·in·der
C c - ...a cylinder of foam. [+ of]
- ...oxygen cylinders.
- Will larger cars soon be powered by four cylinder engines?
- ...a 2.5 litre, four-cylinder engine.
- The carburetor heats the gas before it enters the engine cylinder.Both engines feature four valves per cylinder and a host of engineering improvements.With two sparking plugs in each of its four cylinders, the new engine produces 82bhp.
- The piston moves up in the cylinder, compressing the fuel as it goes.Fluid may be leaking out of the back side of the master cylinder where the piston assembly goes.A cylinder is a cavity of circular cross-section that contains a moving piston, for example in an internal combustion engine.
- When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both right and circular are usually implied.