annulus

Etymology
, a misspelling of, from (from ) +.

The form  is a.

Noun

 * 1) A ring- or donut-shaped area or structure.
 * 2)  A ring of fibrous tissue; specifically, such a ring around an opening of a heart valve, to which the valve leaflets and muscle fibres of the atria and ventricles are attached; an annulus fibrosus cordis.
 * 3)  A ring of light in a celestial body, especially when caused by an annular eclipse (for example, when the Sun and Moon are in line with the Earth, but the Moon does not completely cover the Sun's disc).
 * 4)  A structure surrounding a sporangium (or part of it) which shrinks and causes it to rupture for spore dispersal; specifically, in a fern: a structure around about two-thirds of the sporangium consisting of differentially thick-walled cells which dry and distort the sporangium; and in a moss: a complete ring of cells around the tip of the sporangium which dissolves to cause the tip to detach.
 * 5)  The membranous remnants of a partial veil which leaves a ring on the stem of a mushroom.
 * 6)  The region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii.
 * 7)  Any topological space homeomorphic to the region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii.
 * 8)  In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it.
 * 1)  The region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii.
 * 2)  Any topological space homeomorphic to the region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii.
 * 3)  In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it.
 * 1)  In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it.
 * 1)  In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it.

Translations

 * Aragonese: aniello
 * Asturian: aniellu
 * Catalan:
 * Corsican: anellu
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Irish: annalas,
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: пр́стен
 * Malay: anulus
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo: ahééjiichįįʼ
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: corona solar


 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: annulusz
 * Macedonian:
 * Portuguese: annulus


 * Arabic: حَلَقَة, حَلْقَة
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蕈環
 * Dutch: annulus
 * Finnish:, , rengasvyöhyke
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: حلقه قارچ
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Venetian: aneło


 * Armenian:
 * Basque: koroa zirkular
 * Bengali:
 * Catalan: corona circular
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: ункӑ
 * Czech: mezikruží
 * Danish: annulus
 * Dutch: cirkelring
 * Esperanto: ringo
 * Estonian: rõngas
 * Finnish:, rengasalue
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, corona circolare
 * Japanese: アニュラス
 * Latvian: gredzens
 * Polish: pierścień kołowy
 * Portuguese: coroa circular
 * Romanian: coroană circulară, coroană de cerc
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: kolobar
 * Spanish: corona circular
 * Swedish: cirkelring
 * Tamil: வட்டவலையம்
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: hình vành khăn


 * Finnish:, rengasalue
 * Macedonian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 環空
 * Danish: annulus
 * Finnish: välitila, rengasmainen väli
 * Macedonian:

Etymology
From.

Descendants

 * English: ,