Toroidal

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

Torus
Toroid, a doughnut-shaped object which resembles a torus
Toroidal inductors and transformers, a type of electrical device
Toroidal and poloidal, directions in magnetohydrodynamics
Toroidal polyhedron
Toroidal ring model
Toroidal coordinates, a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system
Toroidal engine, an internal combustion engine with pistons that rotate within a toroidal space
Toroidal CVT, a type of continuously variable transmission
Toroidal graph, a graph whose vertices can be placed on a torus such that no edges cross
Toroidal reflector, a parabolic reflector which has a different focal distance depending on the angle of the mirror
Vortex ring, also known as a toroidal vortex; a toroidal flow in fluid mechanics
Grid network, known as a toroidal network when an n-dimensional grid network is connected circularly in more than one dimension

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