The Rainbow Goddess: The Meaning of the Iris. Like a great many flowers â see the lily for example â the mythology behind the Iris dates back to the ancient Greek civilisation, when flowers were often granted symbolic status as the emblems, or even the personifications, of gods or goddesses.
Iron Ring. For other uses, see Iron Ring (disambiguation). The Iron Ring is a ring worn by many Canadian-trained engineers, as a symbol and reminder of the obligations and ethics associated with their profession.
A ring in the mathematical sense is a set together with two binary operators and (commonly interpreted as addition and multiplication, respectively) satisfying the following conditions: 1. Additive associativity: For all, , 2.Additive commutativity: For all, , 3.he word ring is short for the German word 'Zahlring' (number ring). The French word for a ring is anneau, and the modern German word is Ring, both meaning (not so surprisingly) ring.. Fraenkel (1914) gave the first abstract definition of the ring, although this work did not have much impact.