Tube vs. Torus — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tube and Torus
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Tube
A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.
Torus
In geometry, a torus (plural tori, colloquially donut) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space about an axis that is coplanar with the circle. If the axis of revolution does not touch the circle, the surface has a ring shape and is called a torus of revolution.
Tube
An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct
A bronchial tube.
Torus
(Architecture) A large convex molding, semicircular in cross section, located at the base of a classical column.
Tube
A small flexible cylindrical container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for pigments, toothpaste, or other pastelike substances.
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Torus
(Anatomy) A bulging or rounded projection or swelling.
Tube
(Music) The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.
Torus
The receptacle of a flower.
Tube
An electron tube.
Torus
A thickened area in the middle of the membrane that connects the pits of tracheids in conifers and certain other gymnosperms.
Tube
A vacuum tube.
Torus
(Mathematics) A toroid generated by a circle; a surface having the shape of a doughnut. Also called tore2.
Tube
(Botany) The lower, cylindrical part of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.
Torus
(geometry) The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut). Category:en:Surfaces
Tube
A tunnel.
Torus
(topology) A topological space which is a product of two circles.
A 4-variable Karnaugh map can be thought of, topologically, as being a torus.
Solid torus
Tube
An underground railroad system, especially the one in London, England.
Torus
A ring-shaped object, especially a large ring-shaped chamber used in physical research.
Tube
The elongated space inside a wave when it is breaking.
Torus
(architecture) A large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, which commonly projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
Tube
An inner tube.
Torus
(anatomy) A rounded ridge of bone or muscle, especially one on the occipital bone.
Tube
An inflatable tube or cushion made of rubber or plastic and used for recreational riding, as behind a motor boat or down a snow-covered slope.
Torus
(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.
Tube
Television
What's on the tube?.
Torus
(botany) The thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit (as of gymnosperm tracheids) having the secondary cell wall arched over the pit cavity.
Tube
A television set.
Torus
A large molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding.
Tube
Tubes(Informal) The fallopian tubes.
Torus
One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolæ.
Tube
To provide with a tube; insert a tube in.
Torus
The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.
Tube
To place in or enclose in a tube.
Torus
The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
Tube
To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.
Torus
A ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle
Tube
Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
Torus
Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
Tube
An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
A tube of toothpaste.
Tube
The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.
Tube
(obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
Tube
A tin can containing beer.
Tube
(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
Tube
A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
Tube
An idiot.
Tube
(transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.
Tube
To ride an inner tube.
They tubed down the Colorado River.
Tube
To intubate.
The patient was tubed.
Tube
A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
Tube
A telescope.
Tube
A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
Tube
The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
Tube
A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
Tube
A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
Tube
A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
Tube
A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.
Tube
To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
Tube
Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
Tube
Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
Tube
A hollow cylindrical shape
Tube
(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
Tube
Electric underground railway
Tube
Provide with a tube or insert a tube into
Tube
Convey in a tube;
Inside Paris, they used to tube mail
Tube
Ride or float on an inflated tube;
We tubed down the river on a hot summer day
Tube
Place or enclose in a tube
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