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toric

Pronunciation: /ˈtɒɹɪk/

The English word “toric” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Which, in any of several technical senses, admits a high degree of symmetry, allowing combinatorial methods to be used in its study.
  2. 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. (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. 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. Generated by differences of monomials.
  6. A particular topological quantum error correcting code; see Toric code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology

From torus + -ic.

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