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Torus

noun

(pl. tori)

A ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle. Synonym: toroid.

Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column. Synonym: tore.

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supraorbital torus

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"Torus" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'of its stalk,'—that is to say, of the part of the stalk immediately sustaining the seed, commonly called the torus, and expanding into the calyx. In the apple, this torus incorporates itself with the husk completely; then refines its own external skin, and colours that variously and beautifully, like the true skin of the husk in the peach, ...

— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

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