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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
torsion
n 1: a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a
tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat
performed incredible contortions" [syn: tortuosity,
tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness]
2: a twisting force [syn: torsion, torque]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Torsion \Tor"sion\, n. [F., fr. LL. torsio, fr. L. torquere,
tortum, to twist. See Torture.]
1. The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being
twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the
exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or
part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is
held fast or turned in the opposite direction.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Mech.) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of
any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of
rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
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Angle of torsion (of a curve) (Geom.), the indefinitely
small angle between two consecutive osculating planes of a
curve of double curvature.
Moment of torsion (Mech.) the moment of a pair of equal and
opposite couples which tend to twist a body.
Torsion balance (Physics.), an instrument for estimating
very minute forces, as electric or magnetic attractions
and repulsions, by the torsion of a very slender wire or
fiber having at its lower extremity a horizontal bar or
needle, upon which the forces act.
Torsion scale, a scale for weighing in which the fulcra of
the levers or beams are strained wires or strips acting by
torsion.
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
ambages, anamorphism, anamorphosis, anfractuosity, asymmetry, buckle, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, contortion, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, crookedness, deflection, deflexure, detorsion, deviation, diffraction, diffusion, dispersion, disproportion, distortion, flection, flexuosity, flexuousness, flexure, gnarl, imbalance, intorsion, involution, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness, meander, meandering, quirk, refraction, rivulation, scatter, screw, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, skewness, slinkiness, snakiness, stress, torque, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turn, turning, twist, twisting, undulation, unsymmetry, warp, wave, waving, winding, wrench, wrest, wring |
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