O'Neill cylinder

English

Etymology

Proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space.

Noun

O'Neill cylinder (plural O'Neill cylinders)

  1. A proposed space settlement consisting of two cylinders that rotate to provide artificial gravity via centrifugal force.

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