välitila — meaning in English
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English meaning
- annulus noun A ring- or donut-shaped area, object, or structure.
- interregnum noun A period of time between the end of one monarch's reign and the accession of their successor.
- limbo noun A state of being stuck between two situations, with no clear resolution or progress.
Senses
välitila is used for these senses in English:
- annulus (botany) A structure surrounding a sporangium (or part of it) which shrinks and causes it to rupture for spore dispersal; specifically, in a fern: a structure around about two-thirds of the sporangium consisting of differentially thick-walled cells which dry and distort the sporangium; and in a moss: a complete ring of cells around the tip of the sporangium which dissolves to cause the tip to detach.
- annulus (technology) In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it.
- interregnum (by extension) An intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence.
- interstitium (medicine) An interstitial space within a tissue or organ.
- limbo (Roman Catholicism, uncountable) A speculation, thought possibly to be on the edge of the bottomless pit of Hell, where the souls of innocent deceased people might exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, specifically those of the saints who died before the advent of Jesus Christ (who occupy the limbo patrum or limbo of the patriarchs or fathers) and those of unbaptized infants (who occupy the limbo infantum or limbo of the infants); (countable) the possible place where each category of souls might exist, regarded separately. [from 15th c.]
annulus — full definition
- noun A ring- or donut-shaped area, object, or structure.
- noun 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.
- noun 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).
- noun A structure surrounding a sporangium (or part of it) which shrinks and causes it to rupture for spore dispersal; specifically, in a fern: a structure around about two-thirds of the sporangium consisting of differentially thick-walled cells which dry and distort the sporangium; and in a moss: a complete ring of cells around the tip of the sporangium which dissolves to cause the tip to detach.
interregnum — full definition
- noun A period of time between the end of one monarch's reign and the accession of their successor.
- noun A break in continuity; a gap, an intermission.
- noun A period of time between when a minister or pastor leaves a church and when a new one is installed.
- noun A period of time between the end of one political leader's term and the start of the term of their successor; a period of time during which normal executive leadership is interrupted or suspended, and a polity is either left without leadership or has only a temporary one.