The definitions and results in this section are taken from the 1913 text Plane and Solid Geometry by George A. Wentworth and David Eugene … See more

In some areas of geometry and topology the term cylinder refers to what has been called a cylindrical surface. A cylinder is defined as a surface consisting of all the points on all the … See more

A solid circular cylinder can be seen as the limiting case of a n-gonal prism where n approaches infinity. The connection is very strong and many older texts treat prisms and cylinders … See more

1. ^ κύλινδρος Archived 2013-07-30 at the Wayback Machine, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus See more

Cylindric sections
A cylindric section is the intersection of a cylinder's surface with a plane. They are, in general, curves and … See more

In projective geometry, a cylinder is simply a cone whose apex (vertex) lies on the plane at infinity. If the cone is a quadratic cone, the plane at … See more

• List of shapes
• Steinmetz solid, the intersection of two or three perpendicular cylinders See more