Hypertext Webster Gateway: "torque"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Torque \Torque\, n. [L. torques a twisted neck chain, fr.
torquere to twist.]
1. A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as
worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans,
and Britons.
2. [L. torquere to twist.] (Mech.) That which tends to
produce torsion; a couple of forces. --J. Thomson.
3. (Phys. Science) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn,
or cause to turn, about an axis.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
torque
n : a twisting force [syn: {torsion}]
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