Definition:Right Cylinder

Definition

A right cylinder is a cylinder whose bases are perpendicular to the generatrices.

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Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cylinder
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cylinder