Definition of Ring-shaped

1. Adjective. Shaped like a ring.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring-shaped

ring-barks
ring-binder
ring-finger
ring-fingers
ring-in
ring-knife
ring-like corneal dystrophy
ring-man
ring-neck
ring-necked
ring-necked parakeet
ring-necked pheasant
ring-necked snake
ring-pull
ring-pulls
ring-shaped (current term)
ring-stalked fungus
ring-tailed
ring-tailed cat
ring-tailed lemur
ring-tailed macauco
ring-tailed macaucos
ring-theoretic
ring-theoretical
ring-wall lesion
ring a bell
ring abscess
ring armor
ring armour
ring around

Literary usage of Ring-shaped

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

1. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"The normal element shown in the figure is made by inserting a ring-shaped vessel into an ordinary desiccator glass, and has the advantages that (1) the ..."

2. Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1868)
"This strip of peel, if placed on the table with its ends meeting, will make a ring shaped like the hoop of a barrel—a ring whose thickness in the line of ..."

3. A Treatise on Hydrodynamics: With Numerous Examples by Alfred Barnard Basset (1888)
"If in our results we put K = 0, we shall obtain the motion of any solid of revolution ring shaped or not when there is no circulation. ..."

4. Electric Ignition for Combustion Motors by Forrest Robert Jones (1912)
"A bipolar ring-shaped electromagnet with winding on pole-pieces is shown in Fig. 52. ... A four-pole ring-shaped electromagnet is shown in Fig. 53. ..."

5. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1890)
"There seems evidence to lead to the belief that ring-shaped coral islands are not all formed in the same way. Prof. Heilprin strongly insists that the ..."

6. Rubber by Philip Schidrowitz (1911)
"(<r) ring-shaped bodies tested on the Schopper machine require no observation ... (e) ring-shaped bodies give a better insight into the general tensile ..."

7. Fecundation in Plants by David Myers Mottier (1904)
"ring-shaped chromosomes may be so bent as to bring the opposite ends near each other, ... E, ring-shaped, F, Y-shaped, and J, typical X-shaped chromosomes. ..."

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