Crossword clues for annular
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Annular \An"nu*lar\, a. [L. annularis, fr. annulis ring: cf. F. annulaire.]
Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
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Banded or marked with circles.
Annular eclipse (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ring-shaped," 1570s, from French annulaire (16c.) or directly from Latin annularis "pertaining to a ring," from annulus, diminutive of anus "ring" (see anus). An annular eclipse (1727) is one in which the dark body of the moon is smaller than the disk of the sun, so that at the height of it the sun appears as a ring of light. Related: Annularity.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers; in the shape of an annulus. 2 Banded or marked with circles.
WordNet
adj. shaped like a ring [syn: annulate, annulated, circinate, circular, ringed, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "annular".
NNE cults and stelliform subcults Lenz reports as existing around belief systems about the metaphysics of the Concavity and annular fusion and B.
Montpelier, then fissioned in a purposely ugly way in such a way as to create like hellacious amounts of highly poisonous radioactive wastes, which are mixed with heavy water and specially heated-zirconium-piped through special heavily guarded heated zirconium pipes back down to Montpelier as raw materiel for the massive poisons needed for toxic lithiumization and waste-intenseness and annular fusion.
Your part of the world takes annular medicine for granted now, but the whole idea of treating cancer by giving the cancer cells themselves cancer was anathematic just a couple decades back.
Fizzy and spine-split copy of Metallurgy of Annular Isotopes are just off the edge of the reflecting blanket.
From military optics to annular optics to entrepreneurial optics to tennis-pedagogy to film.
Sunstrand Power and Light utility, a nontechnical explanation of the processes of DT-cycle lithiumized annular fusion and its applications in domestic energy production.
Nontechnical introduction to theories of annular enhancement and zone-plating and their applications in high-resolution laser holography.
DT-cycle annular fusion at the stage where they had the generating-massive-amounts-of-high-R-waste part down a lot more pat than the consuming-the-waste-in-a-nuclear-process-whose-own-waste-was-the-fuel-for-the-first-waste-intensive-phase-of-the-circle-of-reactions part.
The Chill of Inspiration: Spontaneous Reminiscences by Seventeen Pioneers of DT-Cycle Lithiumized Annular Fusion, ed.
Around the needle-like point of the syringe, less than a quarter of an inch from its end, was a tiny, annular bit of metal.
Its annular terminus was lined with what looked like more crystals but which were, in fact, teeth.
Darker green and flecks of gold had been fused into twelve vaguely zodiacal shapes, placed annular on the surface of the bubble to represent the iris and also the face of the watch.
I came out, Shining Knife had evoked local HQ on the annular phone and was reporting in Middle Sumerian.
Troy felt the abrupt, vibrating thump as the elevator settled onto the annular docking ring at its anchor point in First Landing.
They will tell you where on Earth to stand, when you have to be there, and whether it will be a partial eclipse, a total eclipse, or an annular eclipse.