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Definition of Semicylindrical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semicylindrical
Literary usage of Semicylindrical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... the cells parallel, connate, opening outwardly lengthways, attached to a convex
semicylindrical ..."
2. The History and Antiquities of North Allerton, in the County of York by Christopher James Davison Ingledew (1858)
"... the next support, proceeding westward, is a massive rectangular pier with
semicylindrical shafts abutting on its east and west faces as figured below. ..."
3. The British Flower Garden, (series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... 5, free, semicylindrical. Stigma a terminal minutely papillose dot. A hardy
annual thriving best in a soil composed of peat and loam, and increased ..."
4. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"Meanwhile, around all the straight lines perpendicular to the plane of the paper
at points lying along AD semicylindrical elementary wave-surfaces will have ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"by having transversely oval or somewhat kidney-shaped leaves, never contracted
below and never longer than broad, combined with semicylindrical hairy ..."
6. Experimental Researches Into the Properties and Motions of Fluids, with by William Ford Stanley (1881)
"semicylindrical ACTION. été the inequality of mass in parts of the semicylindrical
system. In this case the motion may be conceived to be continuous at the ..."
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