English

Noun

toruses

1. plural of torus
   • 1952, F. B. Fuller, Note on trajectories in a solid torus, in Annals of Mathematics 56(3), p439

     Replace 2 and 4 by thickened toruses 2′ and 4′ enclosing 3′ and replace 1 and 5 by the remaining regions.

   • 2000, George L. Hersey, Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque, p29

     Since we're discussing cosmic geometry, I will mention that the rings of angels are what mathematicians call toruses or anchor rings—i.e., doughnut-like shapes.

   • 2005, Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming vol. 4 fasc. 4, p103

     Germain Kreweras ... enumerated spanning trees on grids, cylinders, and toruses, as well as oriented spanning trees on directed toruses such as O_m× O_n.

Anagrams

• estrous, oestrus, œstrus, ousters, sourest, souters, tousers, tussore