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Toroidal

Definition: Toroidal

Toroidal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or shaped like a toroid; doughnut shaped.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Toroidal

DomainDefinition

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Having the shape of a torus. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Toroidal

English words defined with "toroidal": anchor ring, annulus, anulusdoughnuthaloring. (references)
Specialty definitions using "toroidal": Bootstrap Currentconferatur, confronta, consultaDivertor, Plasma DivertorField-Reversed ConfigurationGrad-Shafranov EquationHelicity, High-mode or H-modeIon Temperature Gradient InstabilityM and S configuration, magnetic core, Mayer and Schmidt configurationNeoclassical DiffusionPoloidal Radiusrotational transformToroidal Pinch, toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Toroidal

DomainTitle

Books

  • Basic physical processes of toroidal fusion plasmas : proceedings of the course and workshop held at Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy, August 26-September 3, 1985 (reference)

  • Heating in toroidal plasmas : proceedings of the symposium held at the Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Grenoble, France, 3-7 July 1978 (reference)

  • Physics of High Energy Particles in Toroidal Systems: Irvine, Ca 1993 (Aip Conference Proceedings, Vol 311) (reference)

  • Rf Plasma Heating in Toroidal Fusion Devices (reference)

  • Toroidal embeddings (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Toroidal

"Toroidal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toroidal" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4153,521

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Toroidal

Expressions using "toroidal": toroidal vacuum chamber toroidal vessel. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toroidal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

toroidal transformer

45

toroidal

14

toroidal inductor

10

toroidal transmission

4

toroidal power transformer

3

device power toroidal

3

55 toroidal

2

sensor toroidal

2

manufacturer toroidal transformer transformer

2

coordinate toroidal

2
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Modern Translation: Toroidal

Language Translations for "toroidal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

torusformet beholder (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), torus (pit torus, toroid, toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

torus (pit torus, toroid, toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), toroidaal vat (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), curvatuur van toroïdale configuraties (curvature in toroidal configurations). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

torus (pit torus, toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), toroidaalinen vakuumikammio (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), toroidaalinen tyhjiökammio (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), toroidaalinen kammio (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), rengasmainen kammio (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus). (various references)

   

French

  

tore (toroid, toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), enceinte toroïdale (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), courbure dans les configurations toriques (curvature in toroidal configurations), chambre toroïdale vide (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus). (various references)

   

German

  

torusfoermig (torus-shaped), toroidal (torus-shaped), ringfoermig (torus-shaped). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ράβδος (bar), ραβδοειδής θάλαμος κενού (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus), ραβδοειδής θάλαμος (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Toroidale (torus-shaped). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oroidaltay

   

Portuguese

  

em forma de toro (torus-shaped), circular (be about, circle, circulate, circumvent, course, float, go around, rotate, round, show card, surround). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

toroidal (toroid, torus-shaped). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ringformat vakuumkärl (toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel, torus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Toroidal

Derivations

Words beginning with "toroidal": toroidally. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Toroidal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: idolator.

Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-o-o-r-t"

-1 letter: dilator.

-2 letters: adroit, oorali, rialto, tailor, toroid.

-3 letters: aroid, dolor, dotal, drail, droit, drool, laird, liard, lidar, lirot, ootid, radio, ratio, tardo, tidal, tolar, trail, triad, trial, triol.

-4 letters: adit, airt, alit, alto, arid, aril, dart, dato, dial, diol, dirl, dirt, dita, doat, doit, dolt, door, drat, idol, iota, laid, lair, lard, lari, lati.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-o-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: idolators.

 

+2 letters: botryoidal, defoliator, idolatrous, toroidally, trochoidal.

 

+3 letters: defloration, defoliators, meteoroidal, periodontal, radiologist, vasodilator.

 

+4 letters: admonitorily, cardiologist, conductorial, consolidator, coordinately, deflorations, dermatologic, derogatorily, distortional, fluoridation, foolhardiest, idolatrously, noneditorial, nonsteroidal, productional, radiologists, vasodilators.

 

+5 letters: aldosteronism, cardiologists, consolidators, deformational, dermatologies, dermatologist, devolutionary, discoloration, fluoridations, hydroxylation, metronidazole, mitochondrial, periodontally, reconsolidate, waterflooding.

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Alternative Orthography: Toroidal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 72 6F 69 64 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110010 01101111 01101001 01100100 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#114 &#111 &#105 &#100 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0072 006F 0069 0064 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5481848175706778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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