toroid

Noun

 * 1)  A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
 * 2) A ring-shaped object whose surface is a torus.

Quotations

 * 1994, The photon belt, a huge torroid [sic] shaped object composed of photon light particles, was first discovered by your scientists in 1961 near the vicinity of the Pleiades by satellite instrumentation. &mdash; You are Becoming a Galactic Human, by Virginia Essene and Sheldon Nidel, ISBN 0937147087, pp. 27–28

Translations

 * Bulgarian: тороид
 * Finnish: toroidi
 * German: Toroid
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: тороїд


 * Bulgarian: тороид
 * Finnish: toroidi
 * Tagalog: malabagway


 * Italian:

Etymology
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