Relating to, having the form of, or shaped like a cylinder; cylindrical.
From 'cylinder' plus the suffix '-ic' (having the quality of). This is a formal geometric and mathematical adjective with the same meaning as 'cylindrical' but less commonly used in modern English.
Mathematicians prefer 'cylindric' in technical writing because it parallels other geometric terms like 'spheric' and 'conic,' creating a consistent vocabulary for describing perfect geometric forms—even though most people use the simpler 'cylindrical' in everyday speech!
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