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6-letter words (3 found)

QUOTER,ROQUET,TORQUE,

5-letter words (6 found)

OUTER,OUTRE,QUOTE,ROQUE,ROUTE,TOQUE,

4-letter words (8 found)

EURO,ROTE,ROUE,ROUT,TORE,TOUR,TROU,TRUE,

3-letter words (14 found)

ORE,ORT,OUR,OUT,REO,RET,ROE,ROT,RUE,RUT,TOE,TOR,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (10 found)

ER,ET,OE,OR,OU,RE,TE,TO,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of torque

torque

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /tɔɹk/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɔːk/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
  • Homophones: torq, torc, talk ('talk' in non-rhotic accents only)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin torqueō (“to twist”).

Alternative forms

  • torc

Noun

torque (countable and uncountable, plural torques)

  1. (physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • torsion
Descendants
  • → Turkish: tork
Translations
See also
  • metric: newton metre / newton meter (N·m)
  • symbol for torque as a variable: τ
  • moment of force

Verb

torque (third-person singular simple present torques, present participle torquing or torqueing, simple past and past participle torqued)

  1. (physics, mechanics) To make something rotate about an axis by imparting torque to it.
Derived terms

Further reading

  • torque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From French torque, from Old French, from Latin torquis; or adapted directly from Latin torquēs (cf. earlier English torques).

Alternative forms

  • torc, tork, torq
  • torques

Noun

torque (plural torques)

  1. A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.
Related terms
  • torquated
Translations

Further reading

  • torc on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

  • quoter, roquet

French

Etymology 1

From Old French torque, borrowed from Latin torquem.

Noun

torque m (plural torques)

  1. torque (necklace)

Etymology 2

From Old French torke, northern variant of torche, from Vulgar Latin *torca, ultimately from the same source as etymology 2.

Noun

torque f (plural torques)

  1. (heraldry) torse

References

  • “torque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Alternative forms

  • torques

Etymology

From Latin torquis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɔɾke̝/

Noun

torque m (plural torques)

  1. torque (a tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.)

References

  • “torque” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Latin

Noun

torque

  1. ablative singular of torquis

Verb

torquē

  1. second-person singular active imperative of torqueō

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tor‧que

Noun

torque m (plural torques)

  1. (physics, mechanics) torque (a rotational or twisting force)
    Synonym: momento de forças

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoɾke/ [ˈt̪oɾ.ke]
  • Rhymes: -oɾke
  • Syllabification: tor‧que

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin torqueō (“to twist”).

Noun

torque m (plural torques)

  1. (physics, mechanics) torque (a rotational or twisting force)
    Synonym: momento de fuerza
Usage notes
  • The term momento de fuerza is preferred.
Related terms
See also
  • torques

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English turkey.

Noun

torque m (plural torques)

  1. (New Mexico) turkey
    Synonyms: pavo, guajolote

Anagrams

  • troque
  • quetro

References

  • Garland D. Bills, Neddy A. Vigil (2008) The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas‎[2], University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN
  • Rubén Cobos (2003) A Dictionary of New Mexico & Southern Colorado Spanish‎[3], Museum of New Mexico Press, →ISBN

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