Definitions for torque

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torque torque

Spelling: [tawrk]

IPA: /tɔrk/

Torque is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in torque (eoqrtu).

Definitions for torque

noun

1. Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
2. Machinery. the measured ability of a rotating element, as of a gear or shaft, to overcome turning resistance.
3. Optics. the rotational effect on plane-polarized light passing through certain liquids or crystals.
4. Also, torc. a collar, necklace, or similar ornament consisting of a twisted narrow band, usually of precious metal, worn especially by the ancient Gauls and Britons.

verb (used with object)

1. Machinery. to apply torque to (a nut, bolt, etc.).
2. to cause to rotate or twist.

verb (used without object)

1. to rotate or twist.

Origin of torque

1825-35; Latin torquēre to twist; (def 4) French torque Latin torques torques (torc perhaps Irish ≪ L)

Examples for torque

There are various devices by which the torque may be (approximately) got rid of.

It was the torque which Heidrek's men had taken from him, and I told her so.

The head snapped off as soon as I applied a few inch-pounds of torque.

“I think the show had lost a certain amount of torque,” he says.

The torque of the rubber strands on so short an arm is very great.

It seems to be descending from overhead, but Pat says that that's the "torque" doing it.

There was no torque on that part, nothing to dislodge it in the course of normal operations.

To fully feel the depth of the Russian humiliation, you would have to have witnessed the torque of its rev-up.

There was a necklace round her throat, and a torque on his head.

Around his neck was the torque, the emblem of chieftainship.