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A torus, pl. tori, is a type of surface.
Torus may also refer to:
Music
- Torus (album), a 2013 album by Sub Focus
- Torus, a 2017 EP by Merzbow (Masami Akita)
Science and technology
Architecture
- A semicircular molding – see Molding (decorative)#Types
Astrophysics
- Three-torus model of the universe, a model for describing the shape of the universe
Biology
- Receptacle (botany), the thickened part of a stem from which the flower and fruit parts grow
- Sagittal keel, or sagittal torus, a structure found in crania
- Torus, a structure of the xylem
Mathematics
- Solid torus, a solid whose surface is a torus.
- Torus knot
- Algebraic torus
- Umbilic torus
- Genus-2 surface, also called "double torus"
- Maximal torus
- Clifford torus
Medicine
- Torus palatinus, a bony growth on the palate
- Torus mandibularis, a bony growth on the mandible
- Torus tubarius, the base of the opening of Eustachian tube into the nasopharynx
- Torus fracture, a term used in radiology to describe an incomplete fracture of the distal radius in children where there is no obvious fracture line on any radiograph.
Nuclear physics
- Torus (nuclear physics), a subtype of tokamak
- Joint European Torus, an experimental nuclear fusion reactor
Other uses
- Torus (housing association)
- Torus - a novel by James Follett - 1990
See also
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