Canister Definition

kănĭ-stər
canisters
noun
canisters
A small box or can for coffee, tea, tobacco, etc.
Webster's New World
A usually cylindrical storage container, especially:
American Heritage
A metallic cylinder packed with shot that scatter upon discharge from a cannon, formerly used as an antipersonnel round.
American Heritage
A boxlike vacuum cleaner.
Webster's New World
Such cylinders, or the shot used in such cylinders, considered as a group.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Canister

Noun

Singular:
canister
Plural:
canisters

Origin of Canister

  • Latin canistrum basket from Greek kanastron from kanna reed cane

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin canistrum.

    From Wiktionary

Canister Sentence Examples

  • On touching the canister this last charge goes to earth.

  • Then let the ball be lowered into the canister.

  • Let a metal ball be suspended by a silk thread, and the canister lid so fixed to the thread that when the lid is in place the ball hangs in the centre of the canister.

  • Let the canister be touched with the finger to discharge it perfectly.

  • Charge positively a brass ball held on an ebonite stem, and introduce it, without touching, into the canister.

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Words Starting With

CCACAN

Words Ending With

RERTER

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Words Starting With C and Ending With R

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With C8 Letter Words Ending With R