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noun

Torque n.

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

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

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Torque" Quotes from Famous Books

... swelling muscles, consider his red sweeping moustache, his red beard, his intense blue eyes staring out of a red face; dress Liosha in flaming maize and purple, leaving a breast free, and twist a gold torque through her hair, dark like the bronze-black shadows under autumn bracken; strip naked-fair the five nesting bits of humanity—it was an unpresented scene from ...

— Jaffery • William J. Locke

... trickled fast, while his great sword had but smitten the air in its sweeps at the foe; when the Saxon phalanx, taking advantage of the breach in the ring that girt them, caused by this diversion, and recognising with fierce ire the gold torque and breastplate of the Welch King, made their desperate charge. Then for some minutes the pele mele was confused and indistinct—blows blind and at random—death coming no man knew whence or how; till discipline ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton