toroidal
Adjective
Meaning
of or relating to or shaped like a toroid; doughnut shaped
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Although they also have a toroidal magnetic field topology, stellarators are distinct from tokamaks in that they are not azimuthally symmetric.
Among these peoples turquoise was used in mosaic inlay, in sculptural works, and was fashioned into toroidal beads and freeform pendants.
A drawback of toroidal transformer construction is the higher labor cost of winding.
A more sophisticated trick is to consider the left and right edges of the field to be stitched together, and the top and bottom edges also, yielding a toroidal array.
Also, due to the low external magnetic field, toroidal SMES can be located near a utility or customer load.
As a consequence, toroidal transformers rated more than a few kVA are uncommon.