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)