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  2. Cylinder - Wikipedia

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    If the elements of the cylinder are perpendicular to the planes containing the bases, the cylinder is a right cylinder, otherwise it is called an oblique cylinder. If the bases are disks (regions whose boundary is a circle) the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. In some elementary treatments, a cylinder always means a circular cylinder. [2]

  3. Base (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In a triangle, any arbitrary side can be considered the base. The two endpoints of the base are called base vertices and the corresponding angles are called base angles. The third vertex opposite the base is called the apex. The extended base of a triangle (a particular case of an extended side) is the line that contains the base.

  4. Solid geometry - Wikipedia

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    A parallelepiped where all edges are the same length; A cube, except that its faces are not squares but rhombi; Cuboid: A convex polyhedron bounded by six quadrilateral faces, whose polyhedral graph is the same as that of a cube [4] Some sources also require that each of the faces is a rectangle (so each pair of adjacent faces meets in a right ...

  5. Right circular cylinder - Wikipedia

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    A right circular cylinder is a cylinder whose generatrices are perpendicular to the bases. Thus, in a right circular cylinder, the generatrix and the height have the same measurements. [ 1 ] It is also less often called a cylinder of revolution, because it can be obtained by rotating a rectangle of sides r {\displaystyle r} and g {\displaystyle ...

  6. Roundness - Wikipedia

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    Roundness is dominated by the shape's gross features rather than the definition of its edges and corners, or the surface roughness of a manufactured object. A smooth ellipse can have low roundness, if its eccentricity is large. Regular polygons increase their roundness with increasing numbers of sides, even though they are still sharp-edged.

  7. Cross section (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The term cylinder can also mean the lateral surface of a solid cylinder (see cylinder (geometry)). If a cylinder is used in this sense, the above paragraph would read as follows: A plane section of a right circular cylinder of finite length [ 6 ] is a circle if the cutting plane is perpendicular to the cylinder's axis of symmetry, or an ellipse ...

  8. Symmetry in biology - Wikipedia

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    This results in the activation of different developmental pathways on each side, and subsequent asymmetry. [37] [38] Schematic diagram of signalling pathways on the left and right side of a chick embryo, ultimately leading to the development of asymmetry. Much of the investigation of the genetic basis of symmetry breaking has been done on chick ...

  9. Biological illustration - Wikipedia

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    Many details must be discussed between the artist and scientist before a final drawing can be completed, and additional preliminary drawings must be prepared in order to work out aesthetic details. Pen and ink (often a flex nib fountain pen) line illustrations are clean, crisp, clear, and inexpensive to produce, making them ideal for biological ...