torus

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Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini: Very interesting, though his idea that the torus is the mother of all forms is not persuasive.

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  1. noun Architecture A large convex molding, semicircular in cross section, located at the base of a classical column.
  2. noun Anatomy A bulging or rounded projection or swelling.
  3. noun Botany The receptacle of a flower.
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  • We watched the network actually grow, watched the lines start from one ship and penetrate the torus, then penetrate the neighboring ship-figure. —  Port Eternity
  • But my torus is only three tram stops away from the docking sphere, and the hostel is close to the tram station. —  Steele, Allen - [Near-Space 05] - A King of Infinite Space
  • The hum of the torus was never-ending; they no longer heard it. —  FSFMagazine,August2007
  • It then becomes clear that the result is a torus, i.e., the surface of a doughnut (somewhat stretched). —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The Engines of Evolution, how various species arise from the same basic structure, the Multi-torus, so-named by its discoverers - mathematicians, biologists Jockusch and Dress in —  ScreenTalk
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  1. Latin, bulge, knot, torus.

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  1. from Latin torus, torum (also erroneously thorus), a swelling, protuberance, knot, bulge, a raised ornament, a mattress, bed.
 

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