Definitions for torus

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torus to·rus

Spelling: [tawr-uh s, tohr-]

IPA: /ˈtɔr əs, ˈtoʊr-/

Torus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in torus (orstu).

Definitions for torus

noun

1. Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
2. Geometry. a doughnut-shaped surface generated by the revolution of a conic, especially a circle, about an exterior line lying in its plane. the solid enclosed by such a surface.
3. Botany. the receptacle of a flower. a thickening of the wall membrane in the bordered pits occurring in the tracheid cells of the wood of many conifers.
4. Anatomy. a rounded ridge; a protuberant part.

Origin of torus

1555-65; Latin: literally, strand, thong, raised ridge

Examples for torus

Fragment of the base of an unfinished column, with torus moulding and horizontal flutings only partially carried out.

In section this moulding may be compared to a large scotia divided into two cavettos by a torus.

The torus or Receptacle of the flower (237, Fig. 223) is the portion which belongs to the stem or axis.

The lateral arcades have similar capitals but only one torus.

Thalamaflorous, with petals and stamens inserted on the torus or Thalamus.

At this time each pistil loosens from the torus and can be easily removed, especially if some animal touch the hooks.

A beautiful and early example of its use occurs on the torus of the Ionic columns of the Erectheum at Athens.

The Cistercians introduced the torus profile of diagonals, but they long clung to round-headed windows.

At each corner of the black marble bases, and touching the torus of the column, the head of a bird or animal has been carved.

In the first place there is the circular moulding or torus with a carved ribbon twisting about it.