torus in English

noun
1
a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, around a line that lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g., like a ring-shaped doughnut).
To be rigorous, the hole is not actually in the torus: the torus is the surface and the hole is in the space around the surface.
2
a large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, especially as the lowest part of the base of a column.
One stand has a torus molding with red-painted triglyph and metopal sections, while a lower register has alternating black and white sections.
3
a ridge of bone or muscle.
the maxillary torus
4
the receptacle of a flower.
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1. Boltel definition, a convex molding, as a torus or ovolo

2. This torus is the mirror of the original Calabi–Yau.

3. Io orbits within a belt of intense radiation known as the Io plasma torus.

4. By Chow's theorem, no complex torus other than the abelian varieties can 'fit' into projective space.

5. We study geometrical and algebraic properties of the coding for hyperbolic automorphisms of the torus defined in [L3].

6. What Is a Buckle Fracture? A Buckle (or torus) fracture is a type of broken bone

7. According to the invention, a rear side of the axially displaceable torus disk (11) forms a piston which is hydraulically actuated.

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9. 20 But there were several obvious characteristic differences among them, such as trichome on style and torus, cuticle and stomata on nectary, shape and surface of pollen.

10. For smaller sizes up to perhaps 10 ft, the Concentrator will probably be a single piece consisting of a thin, rigid skin supported by a torus on the rim, honeycomb, or other structure.

11. As thermal changes, an increase in the electron scatter absorption, particularly in the middle layer and in the torus of the bordered pits, dislocations in the secondary wall 1 in summerwood, a tendency to get soluble (<180°C) and a flowing (180° ...

12. In some species, fusion of filaments or enlargement and elongation of the torus results in staminate flowers with bi-zarrely shaped Androecia (shields, sphere, appendages, etc.; Smith 1947; Saunders 1998, 2000; Liu and Lu 1999; Liu et al

13. The imaging techniques enabled diagnosis of 5 cases of adnexal lesion, (21.7% of cases), 7 cases of adenomyosis (30.4%), 14 cases of rectal endometriosis (60.8%), 16 cases of endometriosis of the uterine torus (69.6%) and 18 cases of endometriosis of the uterosacral ligaments (78.3%).

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