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Adjective: poloidal  pu'loy-dul
  1. (mathematics) lying in a plane through an axis, often in a circle that does not cross the axis
    "Axisymmetric fields are generally broken into poloidal components, whose lines of force lie in meridional planes, and toroidal components, whose lines of force form circles about the axis."

Encyclopedia: Poloidal