VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / torque

Thesaurus: torque

A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. n. A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.
  2. n. That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.
  3. n. A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.
  4. n. a twisting force
  5. 1. A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons. 2. Etym: [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.
  6. That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces. J.Thomson.