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Definition ring

Etymology 1

From Middle English ring, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz. Cognate with West Frisian ring, Low German Ring, Dutch ring, German Ring, Swedish ring, also Finnish rengas. Doublet of rink.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

  1. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
    1. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
    2. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
    3. (Britain) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
    4. (Britain) A burner on a kitchen stove.
    5. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
    6. An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
    7. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
  2. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
    1. A circular group of people or objects.
    2. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
    3. (Britain) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
  3. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
  4. A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
  5. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
  6. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
  7. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
  8. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
  9. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
  10. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
  11. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
  12. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

  1. (transitive) To enclose or surround.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
  3. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
  4. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
  5. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ringen, from Old English hrin?an (“to ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijan?. Cognate with Dutch ringen, Swedish ringa.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

  1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
  2. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
  3. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
  4. (colloquial) A telephone call.
  5. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
  6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past rang or (nonstandard) rung, past participle rung)

  1. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
  2. (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
  3. (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
  5. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
  6. (transitive, colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
  7. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
  8. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
  9. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Etymology 3

From a shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring”) (coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892). Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

  1. (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
  2. (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.

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