concentric rings
Circles sharing centers
Concentric rings are circles that share the same center point, each progressively larger or smaller than the next.
The pattern appears throughout nature and design: tree rings, ripples in water, archery targets, planetary orbits.
The stone created concentric rings across the pond's surface.
The term emphasizes the nested, centered relationship rather than simply multiple circles.
- circlesEquidistant curves from centers
- ripplesSmall surface undulations
- ripple effectCascading secondary results
- bullseyeExact center target
- bull's eyeTarget's central circle
target · target practice · waves · sound waves · spiral · orbit · nested · circular · pond · tree · trunk · growth · halo · outward · radial · Saturn · archery · dart
- Atlantislost city, lost continent, sunken city, Plato, Poseidon
- geometric patternsgrid, mesh, lattice, tessellation, honeycomb
- shell patternsspiral, stripes, spots, bands, ribs
- concentric ringsbullseye, target, dartboard, archery target, ripples
- wave patternstide patterns, ripples, crests, swells, curls
- tree ringsdendrochronology, earlywood, latewood, core sample, core samples