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Torpid vs Toroid - What's the difference?

torpid | toroid |

As an adjective torpid

is unmoving, dormant or hibernating.

As a noun toroid is

(mathematics) a surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.

torpid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • unmoving, dormant or hibernating
  • lazy, lethargic or apathetic

    • Synonyms

    * lethargic

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "torpid")

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    toroid

    English

    (wikipedia toroid)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
  • A ring-shaped object whose surface is a torus.

    • Quotations

    * 1994', The photon belt, a huge '''torroid ''[sic]'' shaped object composed of photon light particles, was first discovered by your scientists in 1961 near the vicinity of the Pleiades by satellite instrumentation. — ''You are Becoming a Galactic Human , by Virginia Essene and Sheldon Nidel, ISBN 0937147087, pp. 27–28

    Related terms

    * toroidal