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graduated cylinder

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables
grad-u-at-ed -cylin-der
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An item of glass laboratory equipment consisting of a tall, narrow cylinder with a scale, or graduations marked up its length, which is used to measure liquids and solutions fairly accurately, but not precisely.

Inflected Forms

graduated cylinders (plural)

Synonyms

measuring cylinder

Questions

What does graduated cylinder mean?
An item of glass laboratory equipment consisting of a tall, narrow cylinder with a scale, or graduations marked up its length, which is used to measure liquids and solutions fairly accurately, but not precisely.

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