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also cylindric
as in spherical
shaped like a cylinder
a cylindrical oil tank a cylindrical tower
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Recent Examples of cylindrical
Weighing under 250 grams and measuring 60 millimeters across, the cylindrical Airy consumes less than 8 watts, while supporting up to 192 channels that reach as far as 60 meters.
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Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Compared with the third-generation BlackFly aircraft, about 97 percent of Helix’s components are new, including the cylindrical cells in its nine-kilowatt-hour battery.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Sep. 2025
For the uninitiated, tteokbokki is a dish of chewy, cylindrical rice cakes slicked with a spicy, savory-sweet sauce.
—Carolyn Burt, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Inside, cylindrical spaces soar and swirl, showcasing bold, complex works from across Africa and the diaspora.
—AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
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Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Compared with the third-generation BlackFly aircraft, about 97 percent of Helix’s components are new, including the cylindrical cells in its nine-kilowatt-hour battery.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Sep. 2025
For the uninitiated, tteokbokki is a dish of chewy, cylindrical rice cakes slicked with a spicy, savory-sweet sauce.
—Carolyn Burt, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Inside, cylindrical spaces soar and swirl, showcasing bold, complex works from across Africa and the diaspora.
—AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cylindrical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cylindrical
Adjective
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Those lucky/sitting ducks were at the center of a manifold creative pressure, like the core of a planet pulled spherical by gravity.—
Kate Colby
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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The prototypes were spherical wire frames containing sails; in the wind tunnel, they were put through their paces on different surfaces, including rough and smooth terrain, sand, pebbles and boulder fields.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Netflix's modern retelling of the Biblical story of Ruth and Boaz, set in the tiny Tennessee town of Pegram, recently hit the global streaming platform.—
Katie Nixon,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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Under that partnership, Swift grew from a precocious country songwriter into a global pop star.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The main use case for an oval Dutch oven is for large cuts of meat like a rack of lamb.—
Emily Johnson,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
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Wait for the oval green fruits to drop on the ground.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Eventually, her hand emerged, gripping an ovoid glass jar with a pale-yellow label.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Ovid’s godly characters are whittled down to basic geometric forms like ovoid shapes and cones that together recount the tale in some of the world’s most phonetically complex languages, such as Abkhaz from Abkhazia, Chatino from inland Oaxaca, and Silbo Gomero from La Gomera in the Canary Islands.—
Mariana Fernández,
ARTnews.com,
18 Dec. 2024
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Then, as the family was digging a couple of buckets and sifting the dirt, Madison observed a shiny oblong stone.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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Thanks to their oblong shape, squash is the perfect vehicle for fall florals.—
Savanna Bous,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Every bit of ground was drenched in sunlight and steaming in the heat, except for the living room that harbored the only wild population of Chittenango ovate amber snails in the world.—
Jessica Suarez Oliver Whang,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2022
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“Cylindrical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cylindrical. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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