A chamber within which piston moves

Usage examples of cylinder.

By that time the warhead received its signal to detonate and the fuse flashed into incandescence, lighting off an intermediate explosive set in the center of the main explosive, which erupted into a white-hot segment that detonated the high-explosive cylinder of the unit in the nose cone aft of the seeker and navigation modules forward of the central processor.

Gray pictured the cylinder containing the super-conducting amalgam, how it had levitated.

The bus stops were built of tall glass tubes, aquaculture cylinders, murky green soups full of algae and fat, sluggish carp.

There were a few gaps through, for the axial corridors connecting the main cylinder to the nonrotating docking net at each end, shafts for the pipes carrying fluid to and from the fins, and the observation gallery.

The axon is like a thin line running down the axis of the interrupted cylinder formed by the myelin sheath.

The diagram shows only the conducting portion of the axon, or axis cylinder.

The axis cylinder, however, is the only part of the axon concerned in the transmission.

The officers make Berel cut the slender aluminum cylinders containing the film rolls out of his coat lining.

With a sense of solemn exaltation, Berel hands the aluminum cylinders to the dentist.

Half a block away, on a side street, a bimbo box, a minivan, grinds its four pathetic cylinders into action.

Their own dinghy, deflated and folded around its gas cylinder, is stashed alongside that hatch in another piece of botchy retrofitting.

The bureaucrat looked dully down at the metal cylinder he still held in his hand.

Yet even such may find their utility, and indirectly serve masters, perhaps sweating in the public kitchens of the high cylinders, or laboring, neck-locked, at the looms in the cloth mills, or digging, chained with others, in the sul fields.

However, the mystery which enveloped its strange destruction would doubtless never have been cleared away if, on the 30th of November, Neb, strolling on the beach, had not found a piece of a thick iron cylinder, bearing traces of explosion.

The landlord worked in the common-room: a man elongated as if he had stepped from a comic mirror: an impression enhanced by his top-knot, which he wore contained in a cutwork cylinder.