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- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
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ring
noun
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- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
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- (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.
- (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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- (analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
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