(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.
Roundel
Definition:
(a.) A rondelay.
(a.) Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
(a.) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
(a.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.
(a.) A bastion of a circular form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just as the Roman legions carried their eagle and Christian missionaries had the cross, so the TfL roundel will be raised proudly in parts of the suburban rail network that never saw it before.
(2) Lights started to come on behind the gammariya, the roundel windows of stained glass, casting jewelled shadows on the ground below.
(3) Roundell is a former head of Impressionist and Modern Pictures at Christie’s, whose sales of masterpieces have included Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which broke the then record for a work of art when it sold in 1987 for nearly £25m.
(4) "This is a painting that has everything," says James Roundell of Dickinson, the dealer that will handle the sale for an anonymous private collector.
(5) This included the Korean name of the DPRK written in a stylised Hangul font and a new logo on the tail, featuring a roundel like that of the KPA Air Force – albeit with different proportions – flanked by a blue, stylised bird-of-prey .
(6) Research into Le Moulin d’Alphonse was conducted by James Roundell and Simon Dickinson, British art dealers, in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
(7) The system that we propose comprises continuous circular capsulorhexis (Neuhann and Gimbel), hydrodelamination (Brint), roundel phacoemulsification (Hara and Hara), new IOL designs, and intraoperative extensive lens epithelial cell removal.