Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A collar, a necklace, or an armband made of a strip of twisted metal, worn by the ancient Celts and Germans.
- noun The measure of a force's tendency to produce torsion or rotation about an axis, equal to the product of the force vector and the radius vector from the axis of rotation to the point of application of the force; the moment of a force.
- noun A turning or twisting force.
- transitive verb To impart torque to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A proposed unit for the measurement of the moment of forces; one dyne acting with a lever-arm of one centimeter. See
unit of torque . - noun A twisted ornament forming a necklace or collar for the neck, particularly one worn by uncivilized people, and of such a make as to retain its rigidity and circular form. Such a collar was considered a characteristic attribute of the ancient Gauls. Also
torques . - noun In mech., the moment of a system-force applied so as to twist anything, as a shaft in machinery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.
- noun (Mech.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.
- noun (Phys. Science) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tightly braided
necklace orcollar , often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples. - noun physics, mechanics A rotational or twisting effect of a
force ; amoment of force , defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from theaxis ofrotation (SI unit newton-metre or Nm; imperial unitfoot-pound or ft.lbf). - verb To
twist orturn something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a twisting force
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The 2. 4-liter inline-four-cylinder engine is the same one in the basic Sonata but recalibrated to utilize a more fuel-efficient Atkinson cycle, since the electric motor alleviates the need for extra torque from the gas engine.
2011 Hyundai Sonata hybrid - Details revealed on the upcoming Blue Drive sedan 2010
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Since the speed of the wheels at a given RPM changes proportional to the gearing, it cancels out the change in torque = same power.
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This means firstly that one rod would have to push a very large T-shape, and secondly that the friction of the T-shape against its guide walls which prevent it from rotating instead of moving forwards would be very high — torque is force times length, and the width of the T is the length in that equation resulting in high friction.
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Audi The car's engine, which punches out a nice 100 hp per liter (525 hp at 8,000 rpm) and 391 pound-feet of torque, is a slightly detuned version of the engine in the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4.
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Unlike there would be a with a car driving over a road, there was no suspension involved, no torque from the engine, and no bouncy inflatable tire — but even so, the ripples formed, rapidly, after just a few passes of the wheel.
The washboard effect ewillett 2009
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The correct wheel nut torque is important because it avoids damage to the vehicle and allows the wheel to be removed.
It’s A Car Tyre – I Can Manage – Go Away! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Electric motors are known for producing full torque from a stop, unlike gasoline engines, which have to rev up.
Reality check: Is the 2011 Chevrolet Volt an electric car or a hybrid? 2010
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* Sprocket bolt: Constant chain torque eventually will loosen this bolt.
10 Ways To Ruin Your Quad Cassandra 2009
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Whether motors "provide torque" is irrelevant, since force/torque is produced in the same manner by both rotary and linear motors.
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I swear I've heard them call the torque a boomshot at least 5 times now.
GameBattles News 2009
qms commented on the word torque
torque, v. to offend, to arouse anger.
Ex.: Police say that between four counties, Jack McPeak stole flags from fire departments, schools, cemeteries, “and the one that really torques me off,” said Keith County Sheriff Jeff Stevens, “the American Legion.”
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Google "really torques me" to find many such examples. Kitit, in comments at tork, reports that this expression was common when he was a teenager in the 1960s. I am about the same age as Kitit and I do not recall hearing this expression while growing up in New England. It may be a regionalism.
August 7, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word torque
There were a couple of examples over on torked.
August 7, 2017