torque

torque is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.Etym: [L. torquere to twist.] (Mech.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces. J. Thomson.
  2. 2.(Phys. Science) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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