torus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
biology
botany
geometry
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
topology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin torus (“a round, swelling, elevation, protuberance”).
Inflected forms:
form: tori
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).
pos: noun
examples: A 4-variable Karnaugh map can be thought of, topologically, as being a torus.
gloss: The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
usually
gloss: The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).
pos: noun
gloss: A large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, which commonly projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
pos: noun
gloss: A rounded ridge of bone or muscle, especially one on the occipital bone.
pos: noun
examples: While there is a hereditary component to tori, this does not explain all cases. Tori tend to appear more frequently during middle age of life; the torus palatinus is more commonly observed in females, but this is not the case with the torus mandibularis. Certain ethnic groups are more prone to one torus or the other.
gloss: The end of the peduncle or flower stalk to which the floral parts (or in the Asteraceae, the florets of a flower head) are attached.
pos: noun
gloss: The thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit (as of gymnosperm tracheids) having the secondary cell wall arched over the pit cavity.
pos: noun
Related words: torus tubarius
annulus
hoop
Derived words: de Bruijn torus
hypertorus
keratotorus
nanotorus
polytorus
subtorus
supertorus
toric
toroid
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: torusi
lang: Arabic
word: طَارَة
roman: ṭāra
lang: Basque
word: toru
lang: Belarusian
word: тор
roman: tor
lang: Bulgarian
word: тор
roman: tor
lang: Catalan
word: tor
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 環面 /环面
roman: huánmiàn
lang: Czech
word: torus
lang: Danish
word: torus
lang: Dutch
word: torus
lang: Esperanto
word: toro
lang: Estonian
word: toor
lang: Finnish
word: torus
lang: French
word: tore
lang: Galician
word: toro
lang: German
word: Torus
lang: Greek
word: τόρος
roman: tóros
lang: Hebrew
word: טורוס
roman: torus
lang: Hungarian
word: tórusz
lang: Ido
word: toro
lang: Italian
word: toro
lang: Japanese
word: トーラス
roman: tōrasu
lang: Korean
word: 원환면
roman: wonhwanmyeon
lang: Latvian
word: tors
lang: Lithuanian
word: toras
lang: Macedonian
word: тор
roman: tor
lang: Māori
word: tarawhiti
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: torus
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: torus
lang: Polish
word: torus
lang: Polish
word: armila
lang: Portuguese
word: toro
lang: Romanian
word: tor
lang: Russian
word: тор
roman: tor
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: торус
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: torus
lang: Slovak
word: torus
lang: Slovene
word: torus
lang: Spanish
word: toro
lang: Swedish
word: torus
lang: Turkish
word: simit
lang: Ukrainian
word: тор
roman: tor
lang: Vietnamese
word: khối xuyến
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 環面 /环面
roman: huánmiàn
lang: Esperanto
word: toro
lang: Finnish
word: torus
lang: French
word: tore
lang: Japanese
word: トーラス
roman: tōrasu
lang: Polish
word: torus
lang: Russian
word: тор
roman: tor
lang: Spanish
word: toro