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cylinder head en · NOUN

Meanings

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.
   • Individual cylinder heads are fitted each with two inlet and two exhaust valves, a fuel injector and a pre-combustion chamber. 1958 April 14, “British Railways First Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:

Forms

Translations (19)

vi nắp láp (part of an internal combustion engine) · sv cylinderlock (part of an internal combustion engine) · nl cilinderkop (part of an internal combustion engine) · ru кры́шка цили́ндра (part of an internal combustion engine) · mi papataupoki (part of an internal combustion engine) · es culata (part of an internal combustion engine) · ru голо́вка цили́ндра (part of an internal combustion engine) · fr culasse (part of an internal combustion engine) · de Zylinderkopf (part of an internal combustion engine) · fi sylinterinkansi (part of an internal combustion engine) · sv topplock (part of an internal combustion engine) · no topplokk (part of an internal combustion engine) · cmn 汽缸蓋 /汽缸盖 (part of an internal combustion engine) · sv cylinderhuvud (part of an internal combustion engine) · vi nắp quy lát (part of an internal combustion engine) · km ក្បាលស៊ីឡាំង (part of an internal combustion engine) · ro chiulasă (part of an internal combustion engine) · it testata (part of an internal combustion engine) · et plokikaas (part of an internal combustion engine)