- 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
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
In some cases, tori lines have reduced the bycatch of seabirds by as much as 98 percent.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022
In three dimensions, mathematicians often describe tori as having the shape of a glazed doughnut, though they’re usually only referring to the surface of the sugary delight, not its doughy innards.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2022
In the Ionic buildings of Attica the base of the column consists of two tori separated by a trochilus.
From A History of Greek Art by Frank Bigelow Tarbell
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