A right circular cylinder is a cylinder whose generatrices are perpendicular to the bases. Thus, in a right circular cylinder, the generatrix and the height have the same measurements.[1] It is also less often called a cylinder of revolution, because it can be obtained by rotating a rectangle of sides and around one of its sides. Fixing as the side on which the revolution takes place, we obtain that the side , perpendicular to , will be the measure of the radius of the cylinder.[2]
In addition to the right circular cylinder, within the study of spatial geometry there is also the oblique circular cylinder, characterized by not having the geratrices perpendicular to the bases.[3]
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