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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
torsion /ˈtɔːʃ(ə)n/
▶noun
- 1 the action of twisting or the state of being twisted, especially of one end of an object relative to the other.
■ the twisting of the cut end of an artery after surgery to impede bleeding.
- 2 Mathematics the extent to which a curve departs from being planar.
– derivatives
torsional adjective,
torsionally adverb.
torsional adjective,
torsionally adverb.
– origin ME: via OFr. from late L. torsio(n-), var. of tortio(n-) ‘twisting, torture’, from L. torquere ‘to twist’.
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