(n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
(n.) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
(n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form
(n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
(n.) The barrel of an air or other pump.
(n.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
(n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
(n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
(2) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
(3) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(4) Different techniques for attaching the gold cylinders to the frameworks were used.
(5) A Teflon cylinder was placed in the mid-left anterior descending coronary artery to create a 33% stenosis.
(6) The nylon group had the second highest amount of induced WTR cylinder at one day, which had decayed to ATR cylinder by five months.
(7) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
(8) Values obtained for thebuoyant density, isoelectric point, and extinction coefficient differed minimally; major differences were observed in the molecular weight and the characterisitc width of cylinders formed by in vitro-assembled T-layer of the wild-type and variant.
(9) The phantom combines an inhalation system which allows for the simulation of xenon buildup or washout in the arterial blood as well as a multisection translatable cylinder in which several sections can be scanned during a preselected protocol to simulate the CT enhancement in brain tissue during a study.
(10) The regeneration of myofibers across the scar follows a pattern different from that within BL cylinders.
(11) The change in refractive astigmatism was as high as 1.50DC (diopter cylinder).
(12) Furthermore, it is demonstrated that a thin perforated membrane fitted on the inside of the wall of a glass cylinder filled with water, will detach, with rotatory movements.
(13) Experiments were performed in a cylinder full of beads open at one end and closed at the other in which a mixture of oxygen with helium or argon or sulphur hexafluoride could diffuse with ambient air through the open end.
(14) The air pressure in the skin cup was continually adjusted (using an electromechanical servo-control system) to pull the skin upward and to hold it perfectly flat across the upper ridge of the Teflon cylinder.
(15) The smaller spheres and some of the cylinders exploded and fragments and even whole cylinders weighing around 30 tons, were scattered over distances ranging from a few to up to 1200 m.
(16) In the first, a rotating cylinder is seen, though no variation in optical flow exists across the apparent cylinder.
(17) After curing of the cement in a environment of 37 degrees C the resulting cement rod was released from the cylinder and the diameter of the rod was measured at 37 degrees C. The influence of the "foaming effect" on the transverse dimensions of the rods was studied by curing the cement at 37 degrees C and 2 atm air pressure in a high-pressure-vessel.
(18) A procedure is described to construct a varifocal lens, after that described by Wood in 1905, to produce lenses known as 'non-homogeneous cylinders' or 'pseudo-lenses'.
(19) The free ends of the microtubules appear unraveled; they are seen first as single elements, then as doublets, and finally are arranged into a cylinder.
(20) A mathematical model of ozone absorption, or for any soluble gas that has similar transport properties, is developed for a branching network of liquid-lined cylinders.
Gramophone
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A drop of the particle suspension is spread out on a flat disk or plate equipped with V-shaped grooves such as are present on a gramophone disk.
(2) Death by digital Jessops History: founded in 1935 by Frank Jessop in Leicester Collapsed: 9 January Jobs: 1,370, now redundant Stores: 200, now closed HMV History: traces its roots back to the turn of the 20th century and the first gramophone records, but the first Oxford Street store was opened in 1921.
(3) Its ground floor is decorated only in yellow, its first floor only in red; there’s Cole Porter on the gramophone and the Hatter himself serving in full costume.
(4) Francis Barraud painted Nipper in 1898, and sold the painting and the rights to the Gramophone Company two years later for £100.
(5) A neighbour brought a gramophone to spice up the act, and Joan became adept at increasing her wardrobe by asking the passengers for cast-off clothes.
(6) On the Sunday the pub will host a Big Lunch, where everyone will bring their own dish for a community party, and on Monday it is offering afternoon tea to music from 78rpm records on a wind-up gramophone.
(7) He was a frequent lecturer and after-dinner speaker and a fanatical proponent of American popular music: in the 1950s he produced a gramophone record entitled An Evening With Alistair Cooke - an unlikely combination of singing, whistling and blues numbers tapped out on the piano.
(8) At the conclusion of Awopbopaloobop , he predicted “formal works for pop choirs, pop orchestras; pop concerts held in halls … sounds and visuals combined … on something like a gramophone and TV set knocked into one”.
(9) The advertising strapline we created which sat alongside the iconic image of "Nipper" listening to the gramophone was "Top Dog for Music" and that's exactly what HMV was with record companies kowtowing to this all-powerful retailer, offering up millions of their own money to contribute to HMV's "co-operative" advertising.
(10) He also promised to help fix Burgess’s gramophone.
(11) Armchair executives may well say that HMV should have come up with a decent digital strategy earlier (these days, Nipper the dog would not be perched by a gramophone but plugged into an i-Something via a pair of white earbuds).
(12) There’s no reception desk, just an iPad-wielding greeter in a space decked out with baby grand piano, repurposed theatre seats, vintage spotlights and gramophone horn light fittings.
(13) They honeymooned in Central America, travelling to Panama on a Japanese freighter with two steamer trunks, 18 large valises and a gramophone - a parrot was acquired en route.
(14) Only now, with the release of Foreign Office and MI5 Burgess files to the National Archives, can Crankshaw’s exclusive report to the British authorities, and some intercepted correspondence about gramophone records, be read outside Whitehall.
(15) Part of that, even now, is down to the charm of that iconic logo, Nipper the dog listening intently to the gramophone, which inspired the His Master's Voice name back when Victoria was on the throne.
(16) He quickly progressed to the gramophone department and began presenting jazz programmes, but was thwarted by a head of variety whose objection to the sound of his voice compelled him to take elocution lessons.
(17) Nipper, the mascot dog who has looked quizzically down the gramophone trumpet in store windows for more than 90 years, will no longer hear His Master's Voice.
(18) They act as the bedrock for the BBC Proms, now easily the biggest classical music festival in the world, and the station was recently honoured by a Gramophone special achievement award for services to classical music.