Tortuous vs Torus - What's the difference?
tortuous | torus |
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
* 2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in ,
* Macaulay
(obsolete) injurious; tortious
(astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
* Skeat
(topology) A topological space which is a product of two circles.
(mathematics) The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a shape consisting of a ring with a circular cross-section: the shape of an inner tube or hollow doughnut.
The product of the specified number of circles.
(architecture) A molding which projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
(botany) The end of the peduncle or flower stalk to which the floral parts (or in the Asteraceae, the florets of a flower head) are attached; see receptacle.
As an adjective tortuous
is twisted; having many turns; convoluted.As a noun torus is
torus (shape).tortuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
- The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
- Infortunate ascendent tortuous .
Usage notes
* This term has strongly negative connotations, perhaps transferred from the similar-sounding adjective torturous . * Not to be confused with the legal term tortious .torus
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(wikipedia torus)Noun
(en-noun)- A 4-variable Karnaugh map can be thought of, topologically, as being a torus .
