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Torque   /tɔrk/   Listen
noun
Torque  n.  
1.
A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.
2.
(Mech.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.
3.
(Phys. Science) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.





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"Torque" Quotes from Famous Books



... our own, with which we hope to arm ourselves before we reach Ganymede. The problems facing us are complex, since there are some nine thousand forcebands of the order in which we are working, each differing from all the others as much as torque differs from tension, or as much as red differs from green. Therefore we have appealed to you for help, knowing that we could do but little alone. Alcantro and Fedanzo will supervise the construction of the generators of the various fields from these calculations. ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith


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