Cylinder vs Sphere - What's the difference?
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(geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
(geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
* 1898 — ,
A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
(computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
(mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter .
A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.
* Milton
* 2011 , Piers Sellers, The Guardian , 6 July:
* 1635 , John Donne, "His parting form her":
(historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres ).
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* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.6:
(mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
(figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.20:
(geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n -dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .
(logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
* Shakespeare
To make round or spherical; to perfect.
In geometry terms the difference between cylinder and sphere
is that cylinder is a solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder while sphere is the set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .As a verb sphere is
to place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.cylinder
English
Noun
(en noun)- When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder''. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a ''right cylinder''. In non-mathematical usage, both ''right'' and ''circular are usually implied.
The War of the WorldsCh.4
- A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder .
See also
* (wikipedia "cylinder")Derived terms
* cylinder head * cylindrical * fire on all cylinders ----sphere
English
(wikipedia sphere)Alternative forms
* (archaic) * sphear (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- Of celestial bodies, first the sun, / A mighty sphere , he framed.
- So your orientation changes a little bit but it sinks in that the world is a sphere , and you're going around it, sometimes under it, sideways, or over it.
- Though cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere .
- It is more simplicitie to teach our children[t]he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare , before their owne.
- They understood not the motion of the eighth sphear from West to East, and so conceived the longitude of the Stars invariable.
- They thought – originally on grounds derived from religion – that each thing or person had its or his proper sphere , to overstep which is ‘unjust’.
Synonyms
* (object) ball, globe, orb * (region of activity) area, domain, field, orbit, sector * (in geometry) (''topology ) * See celestial sphere * See celestial bodyDerived terms
* blogosphere * sphere of influence * sphere of interestSee also
* ball (in topology ) *Mathworld article on the sphere*
Verb
(spher)- The glorious planet Sol / In noble eminence enthroned and sphered / Amidst the other.
- (Tennyson)