torsion

See also: torsión

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “torsion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from French, from Late Latin torsio, torsionem, from Latin tortio, from torqueō (“twist, turn”). See torture, -tort.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɔː.ʃən/

Noun

torsion (countable and uncountable, plural torsions)

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.
2. (mechanics) 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.
3. (surgery) The stopping of arterial haemorrhage in certain cases, by twisting the cut end of the artery.

Derived terms

• angle of torsion
• cotorsion
• cyclotorsion
• hypertorsion
• moment of torsion
• torsional
• torsionally
• torsion angle
• torsion balance
• torsion bar
• torsionful
• torsionic
• torsionless
• torsionmeter
• torsion scale
• torsion wrench

 

Translations

the act of turning or twisting

• Catalan: torsió f
• Finnish: vääntö (fi), kierto (fi)
• German: Windung (de) f, Windungen (de) pl
• Greek: συστροφή (el) f (systrofí)
• Italian: torsione (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 말림 (mallim)
• Portuguese: torção (pt) f
• Russian: скручивание (ru) (skručivanije)
• Spanish: torsión f
• Turkish: burkulma (tr)

that force with which a thread, wire, or rod tends to return to a state of rest after it has been twisted

• Spanish: elasticidad (es) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Turkish: burulma (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} torsie (nl) f
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• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} torsjon m

Derived terms

• torsion field

Related terms

• torque

Anagrams

• Sortino, isotron, nitroso

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Finnish

Noun

torsion

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of torsio

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin torsio, torsionem, from Latin tortio, tortionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ.sjɔ̃/

Noun

torsion f (plural torsions)

1. torsion; act of turning or twisting.

Derived terms

• angle de torsion
• ressort de torsion
• barre de torsion

Further reading

• “torsion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rotions