Usually means: Doughnut-shaped surface, mathematically smooth.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. torus: Merriam-Webster
  2. torus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. torus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. torus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. torus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Torus, torus: Wordnik
  7. torus: Wiktionary
  8. torus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. torus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. torus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. torus: Dictionary.com
  12. Torus (album), Torus (disambiguation), Torus (housing association), Torus (mathematics), Torus (nuclear physics), Torus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Torus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. torus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. torus: Rhymezone
  16. Torus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. torus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. torus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. torus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. torus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. torus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Torus: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Torus (mathematics), Torus (nuclear physics), torus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. torus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Torus: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Torus (mathematics), torus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TORUS: Acronym Finder

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. torus: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. torus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  3. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Torus: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  6. Torus: Extragalactic Astronomy
  7. -torus, torus: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See tori as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (torus)

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

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