cylindrical

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Editorial note

That being said, the cheap cylindrical ones will get stuck in your ear canal if pushed too far.

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Quick take

Shaped like a cylinder.

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adjective

Shaped like a cylinder.

adjective

(cartography) Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped onto vertical lines and parallels of latitude onto horizontal lines.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cylindrical.

adjective

Shaped like a cylinder.

adjective

(cartography) Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped onto vertical lines and parallels of latitude onto horizontal lines.

Example sentences

That being said, the cheap cylindrical ones will get stuck in your ear canal if pushed too far.

For comparison, what would be the radius of a continuous cylindrical battery that powers the Tesla Model S?

That being said, is sticking cylindrical mac pros on their side into square racks really the best solution.

How do you upload one to youtube, and is it just a cylindrical projection of a sphere as texeltexel suggested?

Probably an artifact of the texture being in a cylindrical projection, mapped back onto a shpere.

Well, if you want something rectangular, preserving area, with vertical meridians then you automatically end up with a cylindrical area projection.

It is, in fact, the only cylindrical map projection with local conformality.

On a 688-class submarine, they remove a semi-cylindrical section of the hull around the reactor compartment (RC) before landing a temporary building on the RC.

Well, it's a supported operating system on machines that aren't cylindrical.

The whole machine's custom built to fit inside the cylindrical case...

Most other laptop manufacturers are still using cylindrical off-the-shelf cell designs.

I'd wager they're the most popular application of free-standing (not packaged in a pack) rechargeable cylindrical lithium cells (I have 12 of them personally).

Quote examples

When one rolled a copy up a certain way, one got a long, narrow, cylindrical paper object that said "Joint" along its length.

Panasonic will manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells and invest in the associated equipment, machinery, and other manufacturing tools based on their mutual approval." -- tldr; Lithium-ion just isnt cost competitive (and has major wear issues).

Their paper[0] only briefly mentions the main problem with cylindrical geometries: "With a successful Phase II award the team will test at these varying power levels z-pinch processes to drive out the progression of plasma instabilities in a z-pinch process." Pinches are not very good at being stable, and they are what people tried before going to toroidal geometry (tokamaks et al).