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annular
1. Shaped like or forming a ring.
2. In mining engineering, the space between the casing and a wall of a hole or between a drill pipe and casing.
2. In mining engineering, the space between the casing and a wall of a hole or between a drill pipe and casing.
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A solar eclipse in which a ring (an annulus or the figure bounded by and containing the area between two concentric circles) of solar photosphere remains visible: When a annular eclipse occurs, the Moon is too far from the Earth. to completely cover the Sun's disk at the time of the eclipse.
The result is a bright ring, or annulus, of light encircling the Moon.
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