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Toroidal

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ7826211
Source-derived summary

Toroidal describes something which resembles or relates to a torus or toroid:

Mathematics

Toroidal coordinates, a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system.

Toroidal and poloidal coordinates, directions for a three-dimensional system which follows a circular ring around the surface.

Toroidal graph, a graph whose vertices can be placed on a torus such that no edges cross.

Toroidal grid network, an un-dimensional grid connected circularly in more than one dimension.

Toroidal polyhedron, partition of a toroidal surface into polygons.

Tensor ring decomposition, a fundamental numerical model representing high-dimensional tensors through circular multilinear products of low-dimensional cores.

Engineering

Toroidal engine, an internal combustion engine with pistons that rotate inside a ring-shaped cylinder

Toroidal expansion joint, a metallic assembly consisting of a series of circular tubes used in high pressure applications

Toroidal inductors and transformers, a type of electrical device using magnetic cores with a ring or donut shape

Toroidal propeller, a loop-shaped propeller used in aviation and maritime transport

Toroidal reflector, a section of a torus with varying focal distances depending on the mirror angle.

Tensor Ring, a closed-loop device (often copper) utilizing cubit-length geometry to generate a stabilized energy column or coherent tensor field.

Other uses

Toroidal planet, a hypothetical planet in the shape of a doughnut.

Toroidal ring model, used in theoretical physics to describe particles and photons as fundamental toroids.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 219-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Toroidal, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Toroidal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.