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Annulus
Annulus meaning
A ring- or donut-shaped area, object, or structure. | A ring of fibrous tissue; specifically (cardiology), such a ring around an opening of a heart valve, to which the valve leaflets and muscle fibres of the atria and ventricles are attached; an annulus fibrosus cordis. | A ring of light in a celestial body, especially when caused by an annular eclipse (for example, when the Sun and Moon are in line with the Earth, but the Moon does not completely cover the Sun's disc).
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It results in a kind of donut-shaped water-filled halo around Saturn: the annulus.
A Laurent series is thus any series of the form : If such a series converges, then in general it does so in an annulus rather than a disc, and possibly some boundary points.
Mushrooms lacking partial veils do not form an annulus.
The resulting violent expulsion of fluid from the annulus is one potential cause or contributor to the "kick". citation (Kicks, which can cause blowouts, typically do not involve hydrates: see Blowout: formation kick ).
The system consists of a circular annulus in the condenser, which produces a cone of light.
When the hydrates rise, the pressure in the annulus decreases and the hydrates dissociate into gas and water.
With the magnetic field turned off, a radial current flows in the conducting annulus due to the battery connected between the (infinite) conductivity rims.