toroidal
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Adjective
toroidal (comparative more toroidal, superlative most toroidal)
- Having the shape of a torus or toroid.
- 2013 September, Yongju Kim, Wen Li, Suyong Shin, Myongsoo Lee, “Development of Toroidal Nanostructures by Self-Assembly: Rational Designs and Applications”, in Accounts of Chemical Research[1], volume 46, number 12:
- 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.
Translations
having the shape of a torus or toroid
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /to.ɾojˈdaw/ [to.ɾoɪ̯ˈdaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tu.ɾojˈdal/ [tu.ɾojˈðaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tu.ɾojˈda.li/ [tu.ɾojˈða.li]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: to‧roi‧dal
Adjective
toroidal m or f (plural toroidais)
Further reading
- “toroidal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “toroidal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German torroidal.
Adjective
toroidal m or n (feminine singular toroidală, masculine plural toroidali, feminine/neuter plural toroidale)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | toroidal | toroidală | toroidali | toroidale | |||
| definite | toroidalul | toroidala | toroidalii | toroidalele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | toroidal | toroidale | toroidali | toroidale | |||
| definite | toroidalului | toroidalei | toroidalilor | toroidalelor | ||||
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toɾoiˈdal/ [t̪o.ɾoi̯ˈð̞al]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: to‧roi‧dal
Adjective
toroidal m or f (masculine and feminine plural toroidales)
Further reading
- “toroidal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025