Doughnut (disambiguation)

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A doughnut or donut is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually with a toroidal shape.

Doughnut or donut may also refer to:

• A geometric shape formally called a torus
• A torus or toroidal cushion commonly used by hemorrhoid patients
• Baseball doughnut, a baseball bat weight used for warming up
• Doughnut (driving), a driving maneuver
• Donut, a type of spare tire
• A lifebuoy is also called a life donut

Acronym

• DONUT (Direct Observation of the NU Tau, E872), a Fermilab experiment regarding the tau neutrino

Information technology

• Android Donut, version 1.6 of the Android mobile operating system
• Donuts (company), a corporation formed to acquire and market domain names

Government

• Donut hole (Medicare), an insurance gap where U.S. Medicare drug benefit coverage disappears between specific levels of expenditure on drugs
• Donut Hole Agreement, a 1995 convention around the Bering Sea Donut Hole over a water dispute
• "The Doughnut", the nickname for the headquarters of GCHQ, the British intelligence agency

Arts and entertainment

• Dough Nuts, a 1917 film starring Oliver Hardy
• Donut, from School system of The Wire, a fictional character from The Wire TV series
• Franklin Delano Donut (Red vs. Blue), a fictional character in the comic science-fiction webisode series Red vs. Blue
• Donuts (album), a 2006 album by J Dilla

See also

• All pages beginning with "doughnut"
• All pages beginning with "donut"
• All pages beginning with "donuts"
• All pages with a title containing doughnut
• All pages with a title containing donut
• Toroidal (disambiguation)