toroid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
noun
A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
Example Sentences
- "Toroid and lumen diameter were easily controlled by micromold design, and toroid thickness was controlled by seeding density. When harvested, toroids' were stable, but underwent predictable changes over time with their lumens narrowing."
- "However, because of the lack of guiding principles for the construction of toroids, researchers have not widely studied the self-assembly of toroidal nanostructures as compared with the work on other supramolecular architectures."