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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)

1. (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

   1. (topology) A topological space which is a product of two circles.

      Hyponym: solid torus

      1. (topology, in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles.
   2. A ring-shaped object, especially a large ring-shaped chamber used in physical research.
2. (architecture) A large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, which commonly projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
3. (anatomy) A rounded ridge of bone or muscle, especially one on the occipital bone.
4. (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

5. (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)

1. (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

1. (geometry, topology) torus

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?torus/, [?t?o?rus?]
• Rhymes: -orus
• Syllabification: to?rus

Verb

torus

1. 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

1. round, swelling, bulging place; elevation, protuberance
2. bulge, knot
3. (zootomy, usually poetic) muscular or fleshly part, muscle, brawn of an animal bodies
   1. (transferred sense, botany) bulge, thickness of trees
4. raised ornament, knot on a garland
5. (usually poetic) bolster, cushion; bed, couch, sofa
   1. marriage bed
   2. (transferred sense, figuratively) marriage (sometimes any sexual relationship)

      Synonym: thalamus

6. embankment, elevation of earth
7. (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

1. (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