toroidal
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- adjective
- /tɔːˈrɔɪdəl/
- Specialized
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toroidal
- The toroidal shape of the doughnut makes it easy to hold while eating.
If you apply the right frequency, that's like they spontaneously organize into toroidal forms.
- If you apply the right frequency, that's like they spontaneously organize into toroidal forms.
- It could be toroidal and maybe we'll talk about that, but no reason to believe it, yeah.
Examples
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FIGURE 1. A CAR TIRE gains considerable strength from the toroidal laminate formed by the interleaved cords inside the rubber.
Academic text (1999) -
And this process is called toroidal compactification.
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So here we have some toroidal structure, OK?
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My understanding is that it's with a toroidal assembly called a tokamak.
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This is a toroidal biological mass that we have been unable to inspect closely enough to know much about.
Fiction book (1994) -
With its simple components, JetMix sweeps all areas of a tank by creating a unique toroidal flow pattern.
Academic text (2002) -
We shall take the liberty of calling this toroidal structure a plasmoid, a word which means plasma-magnetic entity.
Blog text (14) -
What's required, however, for an external dipole field like Earth's is toroidal electric current circulating in the core.
Academic text (2006) -
Built to produce a toroidal magnetic field encircling the beam direction, CLAS will detect most of the particles emitted in an event.
Academic text (1993) -
Layers of rubber are interleaved with parallel fiber bundles, "cords," to form a toroidal laminate.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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Shaped like a ring with a hole in the middle
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word toroidal comes from torus, a Latin word meaning 'cushion' or 'bulge', and the ending -oid means 'like'. So, toroidal means 'like a torus' — think of a 'doughnut' or a lifebuoy to remember the round shape with a hole in the middle.