- plural of torus.
tori
Americannoun
noun
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First noted at a World Cup match 18 years ago in France, the practice is known as “Tatsu tori ato wo nigosazu” — a departing bird does not muddy the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
To challenge the long-accepted idea, the researchers built two compact, self-contained surfaces shaped like doughnuts, known as tori.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
In some cases, tori lines have reduced the bycatch of seabirds by as much as 98 percent.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022
But Milnor’s work left open the question of whether one can hear the shape of lower-dimensional flat tori.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2022
The third grain is molded with two tori surrounding a listel.
From Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Lebert, Marie
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