Crossword clues for toroidal
toroidal
Wiktionary
a. Having the shape of a torus or toroid
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or shaped like a toroid; doughnut shaped
Wikipedia
Toroidal describes something which resembles or relates to a torus or toroid:
Mathematics- Torus
- Toroid, a surface of revolution which resembles a torus
- Toroidal polyhedron
- Toroidal coordinates, a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system
- Toroidal graph, a graph whose vertices can be placed on a torus such that no edges cross
- Toroidal Grid network, where an n-dimensional grid network is connected circularly in more than one dimension
- Toroidal inductors and transformers, a type of electrical device
- Toroidal and poloidal, directions in magnetohydrodynamics
- Toroidal engine, an internal combustion engine with pistons that rotate within a toroidal space
- Toroidal CVT, a type of continuously variable transmission
- Toroidal reflector, a parabolic reflector which has a different focal distance depending on the angle of the mirror
- Toroidal ring model in theoretical physics
- Vortex ring, also known as a toroidal vortex; a toroidal flow in fluid mechanics
Usage examples of "toroidal".
The inner edges of the toroidal area converged on each other until the dots of light were moving in a loose, flattened spherical volume of space, following behind the ring.
On each nerve, the moving electrical impulse creates a moving toroidal electrical field, with the nerve as axis.
Steadily outside the Neury Mountains, erratically inside, depending on where in the toroidal distribution you walk through it.
Sunstar in the sky, about where the Moon should have been, a roughly toroidal structure of indeterminate size hung in the darkness at some unknown distance.
Now it was strapped to the embassy ship aft the toroidal living spaces.
I picked out the stunner by its parabolic reflector, the cameras, and a toroidal coil that had to be part of the floater device.
We will lock your solar system into a toroidal shape, so you can never emerge to threaten the galaxy.
The toroidal fuel tank was detachable, with room for several more along the slender length of the drive tube.
Under the overcast sky Troy and a dozen coworkers marched into the fenced area as the car settled onto its toroidal supports and padded bumpers.
Some ran toward the toroidal supports and padded bumpers around the anchor point where the elevator had come to rest.
The vehicle bumped along on large toroidal balloons made of a native tree resin, and used laminated wooden bow slats as springs.
Those shards were the relics of a catastrophe four billion years earlier, when a toroidal region of space-time had suffered gravitational collapse and spewed high-mass elements toward the Sun.
It was a stock, surmounted by a sphere, glowing as the other, but the barrel here was a curious thing, a straight tube of the insulating material, with metal ribs running lengthwise, but surrounded by toroidal coils set at progressively changing angles.
In a convulsive spasm its toroidal neurochord ruptured, its five arms separating themselves into the individuals they had originally been.
I picked out the stunner by its parabolic reflector, the cameras, and a toroidal coil that had to be part of the floater device.