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noun

Torus n. (pl. tori)

(Arch.) A large molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular.

(Zool.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center.

(Bot.) The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.

(Geom.)

(a)

The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.

(b)

The solid inclosed by such a surface; sometimes called an anchor ring.

Synonyms: 3d Tore (2).

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Etymology of 'Torus'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Torus" Quotes from Famous Books

... stone capital that has come down to us has, indeed, no volutes (Fig. 74) but it is characterized by the same taste for flowing lines and rounded forms. Its general section is that of a cyma reversa surmounted by a flattened torus, and its appearance that of a vase decorated with curvilinear and geometrical tracery. There is both originality and beauty in the contours of the profile and the arrangement of the tracery; the section as a whole is not unlike ...

— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot

Words linked to "Torus" : round shape, tore, molding, toroid, moulding, supraorbital torus, magnetic core