Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini: Very interesting, though his idea that the torus is the mother of all forms is not persuasive.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

Recall that a torus is the shape of an inner tube, or the surface of a donut: it is a two-dimensional surface with one whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The torus is the biggest target.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passage at Arms]

The plasma torus of your gas giant world, Jupiter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Stanford torus - A larger alternative to "Island One.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Designing a Space Habitat] Reference

Some acquired lines crossing the torus to other sections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Port Eternity]

So quantize in a Fourier basis on the n-dimensional torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

Gathering himself, he saw that the torus had begun to recede.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Howling Stones]

The lock, at the bottom of the Can, can't be seen from the torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passage at Arms]

Everything grew toward the central trunk and the cen'ter of the torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sentenced To Prism]

This then been carried to the issue of Mandelstam and the triple torus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

The thin outer shell of the torus magnified the sunlight falling on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sentenced To Prism]

The more energy fed to the torus, the "higher" into null a Climber goes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passage at Arms]

I'm working on a story that takes place on a torus-shaped space station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physics problem] Reference

He watched it grow and grow until the network was mostly, about the torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Port Eternity]

The building is in the shape of a building and not in the shape of a torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drive-by photography — L.A.] Reference

It is a magnetic fusion device that is in a shape of a torus (e.g., a doughnut).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear fusion power] Reference

We stepped out into a wide torus of carpeted meeting room, facing a transparent wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreamfall]

Much of his research is fine, but the actual torus is not based on good cognitive theory.    From Wordnik.com.  ["When I tell him I think he's the end, he giggles a lot with his friend"] Reference

So, here's my new torus, i think also it's slightly more elegant the smaller you make things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ouch, my fingertips!] Reference

Pretty nice, if the universe is a torus and all the dimensions started out small and compact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Extra Dimensions Disappear] Reference

In radio-frequency heating, high-frequency waves are generated by oscillators outside the torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear fusion power] Reference

The missing step in that "how to" is the torus of fake hair that needs to be pinned around first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collared! - A Dress A Day] Reference

It reflects off the bottom of the Ring, making the slim orbital torus brighter than it is at noon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Though he felt he was moving more slowly than before, he soon lost sight of the plasma-consuming torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Howling Stones]

Unable in any way to affect his own destiny, he stared, enthralled, as the torus maintained its methodical advance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Howling Stones]

Molly and a skinny Zionite called Aerol helped Case ne - gotiate a freefall corridor into the core of a smaller torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuromancer]

They'd suffered calcium loss and heart shrinkage before rotational gravity was established in the colony's central torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuromancer]

For a heartbeat the table was empty, and then a torus-shaped bowl replaced them, with the lamp centered in its negative, pu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreamfall]

Even though the syntax is two dimensional, the surface it actually requires In its most general form is a torus of finite genus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody Knows Nothing] Reference

Had the map been printed on a torus-a doughnut shape-seven colors would have been needed to allow for the state-shape distinctions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skinny Legs and All]

How far behind him the consuming torus lay he did not know, but clearly its operation was affecting the entire length of the tunnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Howling Stones]

Immense beyond imagining, the star-treading torus was fringed with an exotic and unrecognizable assort'ment of protrusions and bulges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Howling Stones]

The Alliance mission at the top of that ridge was a long, squat building made of the same pre-stressed concrete which formed the torus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference

This may be an array with a rectangular boundary, for example, or a circle, or surface of a sphere or surface of a torus with no boundary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoner's Dilemma] Reference