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Webster 1913 Edition

Cylindroid

Cyl′in-droid

(s?l′?n-droid)
,
Noun.
[Gr.
κύλινδροσ
cylinder +
-oid
: cf. F.
cylindroïde
.]
1.
A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.
2.
(Geom.)
A certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; – used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cylindroid

CYLINDROID

,
Noun.
[cylinder and form.] A solid body, approaching to the figure of a cylinder, but differing in some respects, as having the bases elliptical, but parallel and equal.

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