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torus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin torus (“a round, swelling, elevation, protuberance”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t????s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t??.?s/
- Rhymes: -??r?s
- Homophone: Taurus
Noun
torus (plural tori or toruses)
- (geometry) 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).
- Hypernym: toroid
- (topology) A topological space which is a product of two circles.
- Hyponym: solid torus
- (topology, in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles.
- A ring-shaped object, especially a large ring-shaped chamber used in physical research.
- (architecture) A large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, which commonly projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
- (anatomy) A rounded ridge of bone or muscle, especially one on the occipital bone.
- (botany) 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.
- Synonyms: receptacle, thalamus
- (botany) The thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit (as of gymnosperm tracheids) having the secondary cell wall arched over the pit cavity.
Derived terms
Related terms
- torus tubarius
Translations
See also
- annulus
- hoop
References
- “torus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “torus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Anagrams
- Rusto, Stour, Tours, roust, routs, stour, sutor, tours
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin torus.
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: to?rus
Noun
torus m (plural torussen, diminutive torusje n)
- (geometry) torus
Finnish
Etymology 1
From Latin torus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?torus/, [?t?o?rus?]
- IPA(key): /?to?rus/, [?t?o??rus?] (proscribed)
- Rhymes: -orus
- Syllabification: to?rus
Noun
torus
- (geometry, topology) torus
Declension
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?torus/, [?t?o?rus?]
- Rhymes: -orus
- Syllabification: to?rus
Verb
torus
- Second-person singular imperative present form of torua + the suffix -s.
Anagrams
- ruots., rusto, turso
Latin
Alternative forms
- torum, thorus
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sterh?-.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?to.rus/, [?t????s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?to.rus/, [?t????us]
Noun
torus m (genitive tor?); second declension
- round, swelling, bulging place; elevation, protuberance
- bulge, knot
- (zootomy, usually poetic) muscular or fleshly part, muscle, brawn of an animal bodies
- (transferred sense, botany) bulge, thickness of trees
- raised ornament, knot on a garland
- (usually poetic) bolster, cushion; bed, couch, sofa
- marriage bed
- (transferred sense, figuratively) marriage (sometimes any sexual relationship)
- Synonym: thalamus
- embankment, elevation of earth
- (architecture) large round molding at the base of a column
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
- toral
- tor?ria
- tor?sus (adjective)
- torulus (diminutive)
Descendants
References
- torus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- torus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- torus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- torus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?[1]
- torus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- torus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Anagrams
- sutor
Swedish
Noun
torus c
- (geometry, topology) torus; a shape consisting of a ring, or an object of the same topology residing in a space of higher dimension; especially considered as a Cartesian product of two circles in a four-dimensional space
Declension
Related terms
- flat torus
Anagrams
- oturs
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