To fully feel the depth of the Russian humiliation, you would have to have witnessed the torque of its rev-up.
“I think the show had lost a certain amount of torque,” he says.
On one of these occasions a pair of curious, kidney-shaped earrings was found, together with a torque.
The torque of the rubber strands on so short an arm is very great.
The torque motor may be constructed and operated in various ways, many of which have already been touched upon.
Around his neck was the torque, the emblem of chieftainship.
S is the synchronizing motor and T the torque motor, the circuits of both being in parallel.
The head snapped off as soon as I applied a few inch-pounds of torque.
The collar, or torque, was long retained by the chiefs of Britain—and allusions to it are frequent in the songs of the Welsh.
There was no torque on that part, nothing to dislodge it in the course of normal operations.
"rotating force," 1884, from Latin torquere "to twist" (see thwart). The verb is attested from 1954. The word also is used (since 1834) by antiquarians and others as a term for the twisted metal necklace worn anciently by Gauls, Britons, Germans, etc., from Latin torques in this sense. Earlier it had been called in English torques (1690s).
A turning or twisting force.
The tendency of a force applied to an object to make it rotate about an axis. For a force applied at a single point, the magnitude of the torque is equal to the magnitude of the force multiplied by the distance from its point of application to an axis of rotation. Torque is also a vector quantity, equal to the vector product of the vector pointing from the axis to the point of application of force and the vector of force; torque thus points upward from a counterclockwise rotation. See also angular momentum, lever.