Sentence examples for torus from inspiring English sources
noun
A topological space which is a product of two circles.
- A 4-variable Karnaugh map can be thought of, topologically, as being a torus.
You could even say at this point that the GOP isn't a big tent or even a coalition – it's a torus, an ever-expanding donut-shaped object that's empty in the middle.
They extend a pseudopod in the direction they wish to travel, and the rest of the amoeba then flows forward into the pseudopod.Dr Hong could not exactly duplicate that, but he came up with something similar: the idea of an extended torus, or doughnut shape, which turns itself inside out.
Making apples from oranges Changing connections Through a glass, darkly ReprintsWhether the simplified shape is a sphere or a torus is determined by the behaviour of one-dimensional curves on its surface.
In this example, the surface is not simply connected and any smoothed-out object looks like a torus with at least one hole.On the next rung up the ladder of difficult mathematics comes doing the same thing in four-dimensional space.
All objects in a three-dimensional world can be simplified by smoothing out their shape to look like either a two-dimensional sphere (otherwise known as a circle) or a two-dimensional torus with however many holes necessary.
For large robots, he accomplishes this with a series of hoses, arranged like ribs, to form the torus.
The Greek forms of the Doric order have no individual base and instead rest directly on the stylobate, although subsequent forms of Doric frequently were given a conventional plinth-and-torus base.
But I kept on wondering: how can I create how can I actually make my misrepresentation?"Whether it is his drawings (made with melted paintsticks), his famous Torqued Ellipses or the Torqued Toruses described above, the quest to change procedure and make something unforeseen has been at the heart of much of what the 69-year-old American artist has done.
When Larry Gagosian, a famous dealer, showed a series of Richard Serra's massive steel sculptures, "Torqued Toruses", in one of his galleries in London in 2008, he presented each one on its own in a white-walled room.
The first work that greets the visitor is two Torqued Toruses.
The machines employed to achieve these results include the Joint European Torus JETT) of the European Union, the Japanese Tokamak-60 (JT-60), and, until 1997, the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) in the United States.
