Torque

[tɔːk] or [tɔrk]

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

(n.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.

(n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.

Editor: Trudy

n. a twisting force: a necklace of metal rings interlaced.—adjs. Tor′quate -d collared; Torqued′ twisted.

Edited by Hamilton

Typist: Lycurgus