Torque: Definition and part of speech

Torque

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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