(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.
Rotogravure
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighteen of the rotogravure printers and one of the referents were heavy drinkers of alcohol.
(2) The printers had been exposed to solvents for 9 to 25 years during employment at flexo and rotogravure printing plants, while the controls had no history of solvent exposure.
(3) One hundred and sixty rotogravure printing workers exposed mainly to toluene are compared (clinical examination, liver and kidney tests) to 38 unexposed workers.
(4) Neurotoxic effects of toluene were examined in 43 male rotogravure printers exposed to toluene (age 27-63, mean 41 years; duration of exposure 11-40, mean 22 years) and 31 male offset printers of the same age with slight exposure to aliphatic hydrocarbons.
(5) Exposure to toluene in two publication rotogravure plants was investigated to examine how accurately long-term exposure can be estimated on the basis of production rate.
(6) The high incidence of aberrations could be explained by the exposure to toluene, but the influence of rotogravure printing dyes cannot be excluded.
(7) The rotogravure printers performance was inferior to the referents in tests measuring visual cognitive abilities.
(8) In 1985, 30 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene for 4-43 years (median 29) were examined by means of interviews and psychometric testing.
(9) Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) from stimulation by checkerboard pattern reversal were examined in 54 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene (all men, aged 22-64 years, duration of exposure 1-41 years).
(10) In a cross-sectional study of 181 male workers of a rotogravure printing plant, most of whom were exposed to toluene levels well above the GDR threshold limit values, 55 subjects revealed pathological liver screening values (activities of serum aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, gamma glutamyltransferase; liver size).
(11) Toluene exposure was studied in 62 male rotogravure printers, employed in three plants.
(12) Using cytogenetic analysis of peripheral lymphocytes the authors examined three groups of subjects: 42 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene in concentrations of 400-4400 mg.m-3 for a mean period of 13 years, 28 administrative employees of the printing plant exposed to low concentrations of toluene (8-16 mg.m-3) in their offices, whereby more than half of them spent on average two hours in the photogravure workshop, and 32 control subjects.
(13) Forty-three male rotogravure printers with long-term toluene exposure and 31 age- and sex-matched offset printers without toluene exposure were examined in detail.
(14) Chromosome analyses were carried out in peripheral lymphocytes of 27 workers exposed to toluene in a rotogravure plant.
(15) In 28 office and technical employees of the same plant, more than half of whom worked 2 h daily in the rotogravure workshop, an increased percentage of aberrant cells and chromatid breaks was also found.
(16) A cohort of 1020 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene and employed for a minimum period of three months in eight plants during 1925-85 was studied.
(17) A psychological test battery was administered to a group of 43 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene (mean age 41 years, mean duration of exposure 22 years) and to a referent group comprising 31 offset printers of the same age.
(18) Four groups of workers of the rotogravure, shoe and plastic industries, all exposed to toluene, were studied by the authors.