In mathematics, an annulus (pl.: annuli or annuluses) is the region between two concentric circles. Informally, it is shaped like a ring or a hardware washer. The word "annulus" is borrowed from the Latin word anulus or annulus meaning 'little ring'. The adjectival form is annular (as in annular eclipse).

The open annulus is topologically equivalent to both the open cylinder S¹ × (0,1) and the punctured plane.

The area of an annulus is the difference in the areas of the larger circle of radius R and the smaller one of radius r:

The area of an annulus is determined by the length of the longest line segment within the annulus, which is the chord tangent to the inner circle, 2d in the accompanying diagram. That can be shown using the Pythagorean theorem since this line is tangent to the smaller circle and perpendicular to its radius at that point, so d and r are sides of a right-angled triangle with hypotenuse R, and the area of the annulus is given by

The area can also be obtained via calculus by dividing the annulus up into an infinite number of annuli of infinitesimal width dρ and area 2πρ dρ and then integrating from ρ = r to ρ = R:

The area of an annulus sector (the region between two circular sectors with overlapping radii) of angle θ, with θ measured in radians, is given by

In complex analysis an annulus ann(a; r, R) in the complex plane is an open region defined as

If ${\displaystyle r=0}$, the region is known as the punctured disk (a disk with a point hole in the center) of radius R around the point a.