Definition of Annuli

1. Noun. (irregular plural of annulus) ¹

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Definition of Annuli

1. annulus [n] - See also: annulus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Annuli

annulata
annulate
annulate lamellae
annulated
annulates
annulation
annulations
annulene
annulenes
annulenylidene
annulenylidenes
annuler
annulers
annulet
annulets
annuli (current term)
annullable
annullation
annulled
annuller
annullers
annulling
annulment
annulments
annuloid
annuloida
annuloplasties
annuloplasty
annuloplasty ring
annulorrhaphy

Literary usage of Annuli

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"They appear either uniformly illuminated or with a gradation of light which has not the least similarity to the annuli, &c., of the coarser refracting ..."

2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and edited by [Anonymus AC02893924] (1863)
"As there are thirteen sets of annuli on its main or central stem, it has evidently ... Hence, only twelve sets of annuli can be counted on these two shoots; ..."

3. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The first and second annuli of the body carry a pair of eyes ; the third annulus does the same, but it is followed by an annulus with neither eyes nor ..."

4. An Irish-English Dictionary by Edward O'Reilly, John O'Donovan (1864)
"His words are nam ut parvi circuit annuli, sic ma g ni dicebantur anni. But the word annus is now exalted to mean solely and properly the solar circle or ..."

5. Catalogue of Stars Within Two Degrees of the North Pole Deduced from by Caroline Ellen Furness (1905)
"The outer annuli of the sub-umbrella tissue are more sensitive, and conduct contraction waves* better than do the inner parts of the disk; Figs. 20. ..."

6. Geometrical Problems Deducible from the First Six Books of Euclid: Arranged by Miles Bland (1819)
"The construction will be nearly the same, if it be required to divide the circle into annuli which shall have a given ratio; by dividing the radius AO in ..."

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