split-ring

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English

Noun

split-ring (plural split-rings)

  1. A ring of metal wire looped almost twice about, as a keyring.
    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 232:
      Something was moving to and fro there, very quietly; every now and then it tapped against the wall, or started on its movements with a faint metallic ringing, like the movement of keys on a split-ring.
  2. (electronics) Either of a pair of concentric metallic rings with slits on opposite sides, used in split-ring resonators.

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