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Plural tori tori
  1. A surface generated by rotating a circle about an axis that is in the same plane as the circle but does not intersect it. A torus resembles a donut and is a subtype of toroid.
  2. The torus-shaped apparatus that contains plasma in nuclear fusion reactors.

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