Doughnut (disambiguation)

A doughnut or donut (in American English) is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually with a toroidal shape.

Doughnut or donut may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Donut (Red vs. Blue), Franklin Delano Donut, a fictional character in the comic science-fiction webisode series Red vs. Blue
• Donut, a fictional character from the school system of The Wire TV series
• Donuts (album), a 2006 album by J Dilla
• Dough Nuts (1917), a film starring Oliver Hardy

Computing and science

• DONUT (Direct Observation of the NU Tau, E872), a Fermilab experiment regarding the tau neutrino
• Android Donut, version 1.6 of the Android mobile operating system
• Donuts (company), a corporation formed to acquire and market domain names

Government

• Donut hole (Medicare), an insurance gap where U.S. Medicare drug benefit coverage disappears between specific levels of expenditure on drugs
• Donut Hole Agreement, a 1995 convention around the Bering Sea Donut Hole over a water dispute
• "The Doughnut", the nickname for the headquarters of GCHQ, the British intelligence agency

Other uses

• A geometric shape formally called a torus
• A torus or toroidal cushion commonly used by hemorrhoid patients
• Baseball doughnut, a baseball bat weight used for warming up
• Doughnut (driving), a driving manoeuver
• Doughnut (economic model), a model used to measure economic performance
• Donut, a type of spare tire
• Life donut, a lifebuoy

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with donut
• All pages with titles beginning with donuts
• All pages with titles beginning with doughnut
• All pages with titles containing doughnut
• All pages with titles containing donut
• Toroidal (disambiguation)