Cilindrike

Cilindrike is an Albanian adjective meaning cylindrical, used to describe objects, shapes, or surfaces that resemble a cylinder. It stems from cilindër (cylinder) and is common in technical, scientific, and everyday language when referring to form and geometry.

In geometry, a cylinder is a solid or surface generated by lines parallel to a fixed direction that meet a plane curve. When the base curve is a circle, the figure is a circular cylinder. The word cilindrike can describe such shapes. For a right circular cylinder with radius r and height h, the volume is π r^2 h, and the total surface area is 2π r(h + r) (the lateral surface area is 2π r h).

Applications include manufacturing and design of pipes, tanks, cylinders in engines, rollers, and cans. In architecture or art, cilindrike forms appear in towers, columns, or decorative elements. In graphics and computer-aided design, cylindrical shapes are used for modeling and texture mapping along cylindrical coordinates.

Linguistically, cilindrike serves as an attributive adjective in Albanian to denote a cylindrical form. It relates to the noun cilindër (cylinder), and in technical literature it is used to describe objects, dimensions, and properties associated with cylinders.