Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

toroidal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English

Syllables: toroidal
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the shape of a torus or toroid.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

* toroid + -al

Word Breakdown

Suffix: toroid

Inflected Forms

more toroidal (comparative) most toroidal (superlative)

Derived Forms

atoroidal microtoroidal nontoroidal semitoroidal supertoroidal toroidality toroidally

Phrases

toroidal polyhedron

Rhymes With

colloidal sinusoidal trapezoidal steroidal nonsteroidal ellipsoidal spheroidal choroidal discoidal sigmoidal rhomboidal cuboidal

Questions

What does toroidal mean?: Having the shape of a torus or toroid.
Where does toroidal come from?: * toroid + -al

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