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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt; see Note, below), n. [OE. voute, OF voute, volte, F. vo[^u]te, LL volta, for voluta, volutio, fr L. volvere volutum to roll, to turn about See {Voluble}, and cf {Vault} a leap, {Volt} a turn, {Volute}.] 1. (Arch.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. --Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like a cell; a cellar. ``Charnel vaults.'' --Milton. The silent vaults of death. --Sandys. To banish rats that haunt our vault. --Swift. 3. The canopy of heaven; the sky. That heaven's vault should crack. --Shak. 4. [F. volte, It volta, originally, a turn, and the same word as volta an arch. See the Etymology above.] A leap or bound. Specifically: a (Man.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet. b A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like Note: The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in pronunciation. {Barrel}, {Cradle}, {Cylindrical}, or {Wagon}, {vault} (Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section or profile at all points. It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see {Rampant vault}, under {Rampant}), or curved in plan as around the apse of a church. {Coved vault}. (Arch.) See under 1st {Cove}, v. t. {Groined vault} (Arch.), a vault having groins, that is one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault. {Rampant vault}. (Arch.) See under {Rampant}. {Ribbed vault} (Arch.), a vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character. {Vault light}, a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement or ceiling to admit light to a vault below. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cylindric \Cy*lin"dric\ (s?-l?n"dr?k), Cylindrical \Cy*lin"dric*al\ (-dr?-kal), a. [Gr. kylindriko`s, from ky`lindros cylinder: cf F. cylindrique.] Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder. {Cylindrical lens}, a lens having one or more than one cylindrical surface. {Cylindric, or Cylindrical}, {surface} (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line that moves according to any law, but so as to be constantly parallel to a given line {Cylindrical vault}. (Arch.) See under {Vault}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cylindrical adj 1: having the form of a cylinder or tube [syn: {tube-shaped}, {tubelike}, {vasiform}] 2: related to or having the shape or properties of a cylinder [syn: {cylindric}]
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