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toroidal

toroidal adjective: having the shape of a torus or toroid.

Adjective

toroidal (comparative more toroidal, superlative most toroidal)

  1. Having the shape of a torus or toroid.
    • 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...

Forms of toroidal

comparativemore toroidal
superlativemost toroidal

Origin of toroidal

* toroid + -al

Words formed from toroidal

Phrases with toroidal

Words that rhyme with toroidal

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Questions about toroidal

What does toroidal mean?
Toroidal means having the shape of a torus or toroid.
What part of speech is toroidal?
Toroidal is an adjective.

Words near toroidal in the dictionary

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

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