Torus (disambiguation)

A torus, pl. tori, is a type of surface.

Torus may also refer to:

Music

 * Torus (album), a 2013 album by Sub Focus
 * Torus, a 2017 EP by Merzbow (Masami Akita)

Architecture

 * A semicircular molding – see Molding (decorative)

Astrophysics

 * Three-torus model of the universe, a model for describing the shape of the universe

Biology

 * Receptacle (botany), the thickened part of a stem from which the flower and fruit parts grow
 * Sagittal keel, or sagittal torus, a structure found in crania
 * Torus, a structure of the xylem

Mathematics

 * Solid torus, a solid whose surface is a torus.
 * Torus knot
 * Algebraic torus
 * Umbilic torus
 * Genus-2 surface, also called "double torus"
 * Maximal torus
 * Clifford torus

Medicine

 * Torus palatinus, a bony growth on the palate
 * Torus mandibularis, a bony growth on the mandible
 * Torus tubarius, the base of the opening of Eustachian tube into the nasopharynx
 * Torus fracture, a term used in radiology to describe an incomplete fracture of the distal radius in children where there is no obvious fracture line on any radiograph.

Nuclear physics

 * Torus (nuclear physics), a subtype of tokamak
 * Joint European Torus, an experimental nuclear fusion reactor

Other uses

 * Torus (housing association)
 * Torus - a novel by James Follett - 1990