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cy·lin·dri·cal

 (sə-lĭn′drĭ-kəl) also cy·lin·dric (-drĭk)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or having the shape of a cylinder, especially of a circular cylinder.
2. Mathematics Of or relating to the coordinate system, or to any of three coordinates in it, formed by two polar coordinates in a plane and a rectangular coordinate measured perpendicularly from the plane.

cy·lin′dri·cal′i·ty (-kăl′ĭ-tē) n.
cy·lin′dri·cal·ly adv.
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extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa.
Near the end of May, the sand cherry (Cerasus pumila) adorned the sides of the path with its delicate flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically about its short stems, which last, in the fall, weighed down with goodsized and handsome cherries, fell over in wreaths like rays on every side.
The tensile tests of cylindrically shaped gel specimens (5.5 mm in diameter; standard distance 10 mm) were measured at a tension speed of 100 mm/min.
Owing to the nonuniform geometries of the angular WPC material as received from the wood chipper, feeding into the recyclebot was difficult; however, it was re-formed into a cylindrically shaped prefilament material (Fig.
Backward mapping solutions of the Boltzmann equation in cylindrically symmetric, uniformly charged auroral ionosphere.
When large fruits ripe, they soften, and due to the size, the fruits become flattened or globular in size whereas ripe plum fruits become smoother but remain cylindrically oblong keeping the elongated shape.
Meraj, "Cylindrically symmetric models of anisotropic compact stars," Astrophysics and Space Science, vol.
Sharif and Aziz [12, 13] studied kinematic self-similar solutions of plane and cylindrically symmetric space-time for the perfect fluid and dust.
In addition, it was observed that the freezing face was uniformly developed cylindrically from the freezing tube.
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