Torus (disambiguation)
# 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)

## Science and technology

### Architecture

* A semicircular molding – see Molding (decorative)#Types

### 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
