torsión
121torsion spring — See torsion bar …
122torsion balance — noun measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire • Hypernyms: ↑measuring instrument, ↑measuring system, ↑measuring device …
123torsion electrometer — noun : a torsion balance used for measuring electric attraction or repulsion …
124torsion head — noun : the part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended and which is usually graduated with an angular scale for measuring the counterrotation required to neutralize the deflection …
125torsion scale — noun : a weighing scale in which the fulcrums of the levers or beams are wires or strips acting by torsion …
126TORSION — s. f. Action de tordre, et L état de ce qui est tordu. Il s emploie surtout dans le langage didactique …
127torsion — n. [L. torquere, to twist] 1. Spiral bending; twisting. 2. (MOLLUSCA: Gastropoda) The theory in ancestral gastropods that a 180 degree counterclockwise twisting occurred that caused the crossing of the pleural visceral connectives in the nervous… …
128torsion — Synonyms and related words: ambages, anamorphism, anamorphosis, anfractuosity, asymmetry, buckle, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, contortion, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, crookedness, deflection …