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in various modern branches of geometry and topology. The shift in the basic meaning--solid versus surface (as in a solid ball versus sphere surface)--has created some ambiguity with terminology. The two concepts may be distinguished by referring to solid cylinders and cylindrical surfaces. In the literature the unadorned term "cylinder" could refer to either of these or to an even more specialized object, the right circular cylinder.

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