Having the shape of a torus or toroid.
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toroidal
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for toroidal.
Editorial note
A toroidal tube in which the vehicle is placed, and magnetically accelerated to launch velocity.
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Having the shape of a torus or toroid.
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for toroidal.
adjective
Having the shape of a torus or toroid.
Example sentences
A toroidal tube in which the vehicle is placed, and magnetically accelerated to launch velocity.
But the important question of what mantle convection, and therefore tectonics, looks like on a toroidal earth is not addressed...
One of the funny implications is that many 2D video games implicitly have toroidal worlds.
Apparently the toroidal ring has some property that allows it to reduce the energy requirements.
Was the author thinking about toroidal fields in Tokamak (which is very hot fusion)??
All he is doing is splitting a laser, one part goes through an extremely charged toroidal capacitor and the other goes through nothing.
Perhaps it could be an evacuated, semi-flexible, underwater toroidal ring along the coast?
None of this (in the link here) applies to toroidal space stations.
This appears to have a toroidal-field ramscoop as a prerequisite.
I would also add möbius strips, toroidal spaces, and of course, the venerated circle.
The radiation pattern of a resonant dipole consists of toroidal lobes normal the to axis of the dipole with nulls at the axis of the dipole.
The presence of this toroidal ring of negative vacuum energy is what's required from the math and physics to be able to use the warp trick.
Quote examples
Assuming the planet started out in this toroidal shape, it would be stable since the net force at every location is "straight down", so there would not be anywhere where pieces would just fly off into space.
Heh, this reminds me of my time at Avici Systems: they made a 3d toroidal mesh-based "Terabit Switch Router" using wormhole routing with virtual channels to avoid head of line blocking (Bill Dally was associated with the company..).
Their paper[0] only briefly mentions the main problem with cylindrical geometries: "With a successful Phase II award the team will test at these varying power levels z-pinch processes to drive out the progression of plasma instabilities in a z-pinch process." Pinches are not very good at being stable, and they are what people tried before going to toroidal geometry (tokamaks et al).
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use toroidal in a sentence?
A toroidal tube in which the vehicle is placed, and magnetically accelerated to launch velocity.
What does toroidal mean?
Having the shape of a torus or toroid.
What part of speech is toroidal?
toroidal is commonly used as adjective.