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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 Media, an American automotive content brand, known primarily for its eponymous YouTube channel and online merchandise store
• Donuts (album), a 2006 album by J Dilla
• Dough Nuts (1917), a film starring Oliver Hardy
• "Doughnut" (song), 2021 song by Twice
• "Donut", a season 3 episode of Servant (TV series)

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
• "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
• Donut shop (disambiguation)
• Toroidal (disambiguation)