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Cylinder may refer to:
- Cylinder (geometry), a three-dimensional geometric shape
- Cylinder (algebra), the cartesian product of a set with its superset
- Cylinder (engine), the space within which a piston travels in an engine
- Cylinder (steam locomotive)
- Cylinder, a unit of data division on a hard disk drive:
- In the Cylinder-head-sector hard disk addressing method, a reference to the three-dimensional object made from a single track projected through all platters in the drive. The name refers to the shape of this theoretical disk object, because it occupies the same shape in space, as the cylinder disk drive. (see next entry).
- A Cylinder (disk drive) of an IBM CKD disk
- Hydraulic cylinder, a cylinder barrel with piston rod for pushing and pulling using pressurized fluid
- Pneumatic cylinder, a cylinder barrel with piston rod for pushing and pulling using compressed gases
- Gas cylinder, containers used to store compressed gases or compressed air
- Diving cylinder, a type of gas cylinder used in Scuba diving
- Graduated cylinder, glassware used for measurement of liquids in laboratories
- Phonograph cylinder, the dominant medium of audio storage from the 1870s to the 1910s and in limited use (such as in the dictaphone) through the mid 20th century
- Cylinder (firearms), the rotating device that contains the firing chambers of a revolver
- Cylinder lock, the part of a lock that is profiled to accept a specific key
- A type of lens and a form of refraction error
- Cylinder, Iowa, a small city in the United States
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