Cylinders
A cylinder is like a prism except that its bases are circles instead of polygons. A right cylinder is a cylinder in which the segment joining the centers of the circular bases is perpendicular to the bases. The lateral area of a right cylinder is equal to the circumference of a base times the altitude, since a cylinder can be "unwrapped" to give a rectangle:
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