1. Noun
A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.
2. Noun
That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.
3. Noun
A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.
4. noun
The twisting effect of a force.
A turning effect produced by a force acting at a distance from an axis.
5. Noun
a twisting force
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