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toroid

toroid noun: a surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.

Noun

toroid (plural toroids)

  1. A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
    • Toroid and lumen diameter were easily controlled by micromold design, and toroid thickness was controlled by seeding density. When harvested, toroids' were stable, but underwent predictable changes over time with their lumens narrowing.2010 February, Christine M. Livoti, and Jeffrey R. Morgan, “Self-Assembly and Tissue Fusion of Toroid-Shaped Minimal Building Units”, in Tissue Engineering Part A, volume 16, number 9
    • However, because of the lack of guiding principles for the construction of toroids, researchers have not widely studied the self-assembly of toroidal nanostructures as compared with the work on other supramolecular architectures.2013 September, Yongju Kim, Wen Li, Suyong Shin, Myongsoo Lee, “Development of Toroidal Nanostructures by Self-Assembly: Rational Designs and Applications”, in Accounts of Chemical Research, volume...
    1. A ring-shaped solid object whose surface is a torus.

toroid meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

toroid in Tamil

நங்கூரவளையவுரு, முடிவிலாச் சுருள்

toroid in Malayalam

വൃത്തക്കുഴൽ

toroid in Tagalog

ring-shaped object whose surface is a torus
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Forms of toroid

pluraltoroids

Words formed from toroid

Questions about toroid

What does toroid mean?
Toroid means a surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
What is toroid in Tamil?
Toroid in Tamil is நங்கூரவளையவுரு, முடிவிலாச் சுருள். See Toroid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is toroid?
Toroid is a noun.
What is the plural of toroid?
The plural of toroid is toroids.

Words near toroid in the dictionary

  1. torob
  2. torocyte
  3. torocytes
  4. Toroian
  5. Toroians
  6. toroid
  7. toroidal
  8. toroidal polyhedra
  9. toroidal polyhedron
  10. toroidality
  11. toroidalization

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