annular

English

WOTD – 26 May 2007

Etymology

From Latin ānulāris (“ring-shaped”); (possibly through French annulaire), from ānulus (“ring”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈænjələ/, /ˈænjʊlə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈænjəlɚ/

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Adjective

annular (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; ring-shaped; in the shape of an annulus.

   Synonym: ring-shaped

   annular fiber

   • 1963 April, Roy L. Clough, Jr., “Hoopskirt: The old "flying barrel" turns in a top performance in this up-to-date-model”, in Popular Mechanics‎, page 155:

     If anybody snickers, put 'em in their place by reminding them that the annular wing is a very old aeronautical principle.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:

     The capsule in both families is spherical, with a bistratose wall; the outer cell layer usually bears nodular thickenings […] ; the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts […]

2. Banded or marked with circles.

Derived terms

• annular eclipse
• annularity
• annularly
• annular zone
• cannular
• interannular
• penannular
• periannular
• postannular
• semiannular
• transannular

Translations

having the form of a ring

Azerbaijani: üzükvari Bengali: বলয়াকার (bolẏakar), অঙ্গুরিসদৃশ (oṅguriśodriś) Bulgarian: пръстеновиден (prǎstenoviden) Catalan: anular (ca) Finnish: rengasmainen (fi) French: annulaire (fr) German: ringförmig (de), kranzförmig (de) Greek: δακτυλιοειδής (el) (daktylioeidís) Icelandic: hringlaga Irish: fáinneach, annalach Latin: ānulāris Persian: حلقوی (fa) (halqavi) Portuguese: anular (pt), anelar (pt) Russian: кольцево́й (ru) (kolʹcevój), кольцеобра́зный (ru) (kolʹceobráznyj), кольцеви́дный (ru) (kolʹcevídnyj) Spanish: anular (es) Swedish: ringformig (sv) Tagalog: gasingsing Turkish: halkamsı (tr), halkasal (tr)

See also

• annual

References

• “annular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.