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toric.

Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal.

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Meaning & usage

adj/ˈtɒɹɪk/Received-Pronunciation/ˈtɔːɹɪk/Received-Pronunciation/ˈtɔɹɪk/General-American/ˈtɑɹɪk/New-York-City, Philadelphia
  1. Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal. Which, in any of several technical senses, admits a high degree of symmetry, allowing combinatorial methods to be used in its study.

  2. Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal. Which, in any of several technical senses, admits a high degree of symmetry, allowing combinatorial methods to be used in its study. Containing an algebraic torus as a dense subset, such that the group action of the torus on itself extends to the whole space; or, the embedding map taking the torus into the space. See Toric variety on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

  3. Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal. Which, in any of several technical senses, admits a high degree of symmetry, allowing combinatorial methods to be used in its study. (Narrowly) A compact smooth toric variety. (Broadly) Quasitoric: a closed, real, even-dimensional smooth manifold equipped with an effective, smooth action by an algebraic torus whose orbits are simple complex polytopes and such that the action is locally the same as a faithful real representation of the group.

  4. Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal. Which, in any of several technical senses, admits a high degree of symmetry, allowing combinatorial methods to be used in its study. Any of several generalizations of the notion of toric varieties to stacks: the stack quotient of a toric variety by its torus; the stack quotient of a toric variety by a subgroup of its torus.

  5. Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal. Which, in any of several technical senses, admits a high degree of symmetry, allowing combinatorial methods to be used in its study. Generated by differences of monomials.

  6. Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal. A particular topological quantum error correcting code; see Toric code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Where this word comes from

Etymology tree English torus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English toric From torus + -ic.

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