1. the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus;
2. a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle; [syn: torus, toroid]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
toroid
n 1: the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus
2: a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around
an axis that does not intersect the circle [syn: torus,
toroid]