Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or consisting in torsion; of the nature of torsion; characterized by torsion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or achieved using
torsion
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Examples
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Thickly padded, laterally stabilized athletic shoes were initially conceived to protect ankles, knees, hips and spine from the repetitive torsional and shocking forces found in running.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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Thickly padded, laterally stabilized athletic shoes were initially conceived to protect ankles, knees, hips and spine from the repetitive torsional and shocking forces found in running.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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Each bike was ridden for at least 30 hours, and then subjected to torsional stiffness testing in Colorado and aerodynamic drag testing in North Carolina.
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Thickly padded, laterally stabilized athletic shoes were initially conceived to protect ankles, knees, hips and spine from the repetitive torsional and shocking forces found in running.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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How much do they vary in torsional stiffness – and how does that affect the ride quality?
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We created the torsional stiffness test with Microbac Laboratories, Inc,. to replicate and measure the effects of pedaling load on a bike.
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Using data from the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) facility of the National Solar Observatory and from the Stanford University Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, we have constructed a map of the torsional-oscillation flow inside the sun over the past 14 years.
October 24th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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The sunspot cycle is thought to arise from large-scale motions inside the sun: north-south and east-west flows (meridional circulation and torsional oscillation, respectively) and differential rotation in which the solar equator rotates faster than the poles.
October 24th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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The torsional angles, which can be independently varied between 0° and 360°, are just two of the hundreds of configurable variables.
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An explanation of the torsional stiffness test we co-developed with Microbac Laboratories can be found here.
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