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cylindrically

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cy·lin·dri·cal  (s-lndr-kl) also cy·lin·dric (-drk)
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·lindri·cali·ty (-kl-t) n.
cy·lindri·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.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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