tori
Americannoun
noun
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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
By constructing a pair of tori that match in local measurements but differ globally, the team has provided the first explicit example of this phenomenon.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
No sound is needed to scare off seabirds with a device called a tori line.
From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022
At each stage, we replace every torus with a chain of smaller tori, and we do that forever.
From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2018
Not long since Tregaskis advertised a little Book of Hours, printed by Simon duBois pour maistre geofroy tori de bourges 1527, at sixty guineas.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
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