cylinders
NOUN:
- Mathematics
- The surface generated by a straight line intersecting and moving along a closed plane curve, the directrix, while remaining parallel to a fixed straight line that is not on or parallel to the plane of the directrix.
- The portion of such a surface bounded by two parallel planes and the regions of the planes bounded by the surface.
- A solid bounded by two parallel planes and such a surface, especially such a surface having a circle as its directrix.
- A cylindrical container or object.