torsion
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See also: torsión
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “torsion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
Borrowed from French, from Late Latin torsio, torsionem, from Latin tortio, from torqueō (“twist, turn”). See torture, -tort.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɔː.ʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtor.ʃɪn/, /ˈtor.ʒɪn/, /ˈtor.ʃən/, /ˈtor.ʒən/
Noun
torsion (countable and uncountable, plural torsions)
- The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.
- (mathematics) A finite order element of a group that, when raised to a positive integer power results in the identity element of the group.
- (mathematics) An element of a homology or cohomology group for which there exists a non-zero integer that, when the element is multiplied by that integer, yields zero.
- (medicine) A type of holistic complimentary medicine that involves balancing theoretical energy fields through energy healing, meditation, and similar practices.
- (mechanics) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
- (surgery) The stopping of arterial haemorrhage in certain cases, by twisting the cut end of the artery.
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Translations
the act of turning or twisting
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that force with which a thread, wire, or rod tends to return to a state of rest after it has been twisted
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Finnish
Noun
torsion
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin torsiōnem, from Latin tortiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
torsion f (plural torsions)
- torsion; act of turning or twisting
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Further reading
- “torsion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.