How to Use torus in a Sentence

torus

noun

• The area is known as a torus, swirling around a black hole in the middle.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2023
• These two time dimensions can be traced on to the surface of a torus.
  — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 26 July 2022
• In the most recent image, a pair of searchlight beams blast from each end of the dusty torus around the central star.
  — Dave Mosher, WIRED, 30 Apr. 2012
• To trap a plasma, the magnetic field going around the torus must twist like the stripes on a candy cane.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 6 Feb. 2020
• The Euler characteristic of a sphere is 2; that of a torus is 0.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2015
• Because of this, any change in the accretion disk will later be echoed within the torus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2018
• Surprisingly, the space of two-note chords is a Möbius strip, and the space of three-note chords is a kind of twisted triangular torus.
  — George Hart, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2013
• Exactly one dot of every other color will show up on the torus.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
• But in real life, researchers have thought up a a few variations: either a sphere, a cylinder, or a ring-shaped torus.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2019
• The surface of a sphere and the surface of a torus, for instance, are both two-dimensional manifolds.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
• The torus form and off-center void give a feeling of perpetual motion.
  — Nicola Chilton, CNN, 20 June 2022
• Next, map the circle onto the two-dimensional surface of an inner tube (a one-holed torus).
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
• Gauss-Bonnet implies that the average curvature of a torus, and of any shape with a single hole in it, is zero.
  — Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• What’s more, some AGN have a dusty torus, the geometric equivalent of a donut, in the same plane as their accretion disk, but much, much bigger and thicker.
  — Summer Ash, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2018
• This map attempts a kind of 3-D simulation by projecting the map onto a torus.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• The rats got a quarter of a torus of the sugary treat; their driving instructors no doubt threw back a few handfuls when rotating and balancing the tires.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
• The stellarator, however, traps the plasma in a twisting and spiraling shape, rather than the torus (doughnut shape) of a tokamak.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2018
• The torus itself spans only about 20 light-years, an extremely small region of space compared with the larger galaxy M77.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2018
• Those wavelengths allowed the team to view not only each quasar’s accretion disk, but also its torus — the doughnut-shape ring of dust clouds that wraps around the accretion disk.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2018
• An animation of the central torus of gas and dust, thought to surround the supermassive black hole of an active galaxy.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
• After more time elapsed things settled down and Uranus would've been rotating sideways, and the torus would've flattened back into a disk aligned with Uranus' equator due to tidal forces.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2011
• This instrument made observations of the torus in Cygnus A possible for the first time, Lopez-Rodriguez explained.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
• But a spherical torus like NSTX resembles a cored apple.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 6 Feb. 2020
• As Io sweeps by Jupiter, the planet drags particles off its surface, forming a small magnetosphere, or plasma torus around the moon.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020
• Since the magnetic field doesn't have the same strength across the cross-section of the torus, particle drift to the outside is much more energetically favorable.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 June 2017
• This picture is an artist's representation of what the very heart of the galaxy may look like, a shining accretion disk surrounded by a much larger torus of gas.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2019
• Then a series of prints and embroideries play with using scribbles to mark points on a grid—either flat, or applied to mathematical shapes like a torus or sphere.
  — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 6 Feb. 2017
• At least once, according to JET's operators, these speakers helped them track down a loose clamp in the torus's immense and complicated structure.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2016
• String theory and number theory have common ground in a specific kind of elliptic curve from a torus.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2020
• That’s important because the glowing accretion disk sends visible light toward the dark torus, where it is absorbed and re-emitted as infrared light.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2018

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