Examples of toroidal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The lugs themselves have a toroidal shape, meaning they are curved so that a high point on the lug is what butts against the inside of the chamber of the barrel. — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, "Gun Test: The American Rifle Company Nucleus Gen2," 12 Nov. 2020 Axiom’s modules may be spherical or toroidal, and the diameter of each one could be up to three times larger than a conventional hard-shell model. — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, "What Comes After the International Space Station?," 27 Oct. 2020 The first 310-tonne toroidal field coil (from Japan) and the first 440-tonne vacuum vessel sector (from Korea) are among the special deliveries expected in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance in 2019. — Giulia Pacchioni, Scientific American, "The Road to Fusion," 26 Aug. 2019 The diamond tips of the DACs used by Loubeyre's team were toroidal, a new design developed in 2018 that allowed for greater high-pressure limits. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Scientists Say They've Finally Made Metallic Hydrogen," 26 June 2019

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