👉 In algebra, a toric variety is an example of a projective model for a complex analytic variety. A toric variety is defined as a projective variety that can be obtained from a polyhedral cone by adding a point at infinity (a "torus") to the base locus of the polyhedron. The term "toric" comes from the fact that a toric variety can be seen as an extension of the projective space, which is itself a kind of complex analytic