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TORUS
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Irregular inflected form: tori
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
Synonyms:
tore; torus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("torus" is a kind of...):
molding; moulding (a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle
Synonyms:
toroid; torus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("torus" is a kind of...):
round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "torus"):
core; magnetic core ((computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories)
