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• the cylinder bridge — floating bridge that was used to cross the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur war …   English contemporary dictionary

• Cylinder head porting — refers to the process of modifying the intake and exhaust ports of an internal combustion engine to improve the quality and quantity of the air flow. Cylinder heads, as manufactured, are usually suboptimal due to design and manufacturing… …   Wikipedia

• Cylinder of Nabonidus — The Nabonidus Cylinder. The Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar is a long text in which king Nabonidus of Babylonia (556 539 BC) describes how he repaired three temples: the sanctuary of the moon god Sin in Harran, the sanctuary of the warrior goddess …   Wikipedia

• Cylinder (locomotive) — The motion on the left hand side of 60163 Tornado. The black casting to the left houses the cylinder, in which slides the piston; the piston rod is immediately above the wheel. The cylinders of a steam locomotive are the components that convert… …   Wikipedia

• The Method of Mechanical Theorems — is a work by Archimedes which contains the first attested explicit use of infinitesimals.[1] The work was originally thought to be lost, but was rediscovered in the celebrated Archimedes Palimpsest. The palimpsest includes Archimedes account of… …   Wikipedia

• Cylinder blown sheet glass — Cylinder blown sheet is a type of hand blown window glass. It is created with a similar process to broad sheet, but larger cylinders are produced by swinging the cylinder in a trench. The glass is then allowed to cool before the cylinder is cut.… …   Wikipedia

• Cylinder blown sheet — is a type of hand blown window glass. It is created with a similar process to broad sheet, but larger cylinders are produced by swinging the cylinder in a trench. The glass is then allowed to cool before the cylinder is cut. The glass is then re… …   Wikipedia

• cylinder head — The detachable metal (aluminum or iron) plate or cap that is bolted to the top of the cylinder block. It is used to cover the tops of the cylinders, in many cases the cylinder head contains the valves, it also forms part of the combustion chamber …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Cylinder desk — The cylinder desk is a desk that resembles a Bureau Mazarin or a writing table equipped with small stacked shelves in front of the user s main work surface, and a revolving cylinder part that comes down to hide and lock up the working papers when …   Wikipedia

• Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project — The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project is a free digital collection maintained by the University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries with streaming and downloadable versions of over 6,000 phonograph cylinders manufactured between… …   Wikipedia

• Cylinder boot — The upper cylinder in this image has a cylinder boot. A cylinder boot is a rubber or plastic cover for the bottom end of a diving cylinder. It is intended to make it easier to stand the cylinder on end on land, and to avoid the metal cylinder… …   Wikipedia