Meaning

2 senses
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cylinder, head.

  2. A part of an internal combustion engine, usually made as a removable piece, that closes one end of the engine's cylinders.

    Zylinderkopf

    голо́вка цили́ндраgolóvka cilíndra, кры́шка цили́ндраkrýška cilíndra

More definitions
  • a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
part of an internal combustion engine:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
part of an internal combustion engine:

Forms

plural: cylinder heads
Singularcylinder head
Pluralcylinder heads

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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