(n.) A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.
(n.) A little circle borne as a charge.
(n.) A narrow circle of some distinct color on a surface or round an organ.
Example Sentences:
(1) Binding of the ATP analog is shown to convert the enzyme to a circular clamp with an annulet, through which only a linear DNA can pass; subsequent circularization of the bound linear DNA forms a salt-stable catenane between the protein circular clamp and the DNA ring.
(2) Desmin immunoreactivity was noted also at the Z-bands of striated annulets, within areas of disordered myofibrils, such as sarcoplasmic masses, and in atrophic muscle fibers.
(3) Periarteriolar [H+] and [K+] were also measured because most large arterioles are in close proximity to venules such that the biochemical status of the periarteriolar tissue could be influenced by a large decrease in O2 availability in the annulet of tissue surrounding the venules.
Ringlet
Definition:
(n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
(n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(2) One ringlet on a handle has been offset to facilitate retrieval of the needle holder from a flat surface.
(3) The ringlet configuration of the splayed scissors conforms to the normal resting posture of the hand.
(4) The purpose of this study was to develop orthodontic ringlets from polyurethane which have maximum flow resistance.
(5) The ringleted far-out Mona Ramsey is on a quest to find herself when the answer is right beneath her coke-dusted nose.
(6) Neither intact phage nor ghosts were seen in any of the preparations, although ringlets of two different diameters, which appeared to correspond to the diameters of the sheath and inner core, were observed.
(7) Side by side on the shelves near us are two framed photographs: on the left is Melanie in a white dress, with a cascade of blond ringlets; and on the right is Tom, still the same bright blue eyes, but with a boy’s short hair.
(8) Writing about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh in 1978, Lorna Sage drew attention to the "slump" in its reputation after the success it had first enjoyed after its 1856 publication: at first, she argued, it seemed to have successfully liberated the epic form from a male monopoly; subsequently, though, a ringletted Barrett Browning morphed into "almost the archetype of the powerless, fey poetess".
(9) A Hasidic Jewish schoolboy with ringlets and a limp.
(10) Soluble rCR2, visualized by high resolution electron microscopy, was shown to be an extended, highly flexible molecule comprised of ringlet domains, each approximately 24.1 A in length, which likely correspond to the short consensus repeat motif deduced from the CR2 cDNA nucleotide sequence.
(11) PMC formed 15 times as many epithelial ringlets or "stomata" as PMVEC.
(12) In addition, surgeons can apply greater force to the splayed scissor ringlets than that which could be applied to the ringlets of conventional scissors.
(13) The abnormalities were predominantly confined to the posterior pole and ranged from many small (100- to 200-microns) subretinal black ringlets to single large (2- to 3-disc diameter) geographic lesions.
(14) Brown bodies, formed by coelomocytes surrounding foreign material, accumulated in the posterior region of the animal around the cloacal suspensors; these eventually were eliminated through a ringlet of ducts connecting the coelomic cavity with the external environment.
(15) Ringlet numbers increased by 354% while marbled white counts rose by 503%.