Driveshafts are almost only stressed by torsion effects.
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Torsion
//ˈtor.ʃɪn//
Synonyms for "torsion" (73 found)
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Strong matches (22)
Related words (36)
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23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
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11 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- извиване noun (the act of turning or twisting)
- усукване noun (the act of turning or twisting)
- усукваща сила noun (that force with which a thread, wire, or rod tends to return to a state of rest after it has been twisted)
Catalan
1 entries- torsió noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Danish
1 entries- torsion noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Finnish
3 entries- kierevyys noun (in mathematics)
- kierto noun (the act of turning or twisting)
- vääntö noun (the act of turning or twisting)
German
2 entries- Windung noun (the act of turning or twisting)
- Windungen noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Greek
1 entries- συστροφή noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Hindi
4 entries- ऐंठन noun (the act of turning or twisting)
- ऐंठन noun (that force with which a thread, wire, or rod tends to return to a state of rest after it has been twisted)
- मरोड़ noun (the act of turning or twisting)
- मरोड़ noun (that force with which a thread, wire, or rod tends to return to a state of rest after it has been twisted)
Italian
1 entries- torsione noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Korean
1 entries- 말림 noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- torsjon noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- torsjon noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Portuguese
1 entries- torção noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Russian
1 entries- скручивание noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Spanish
2 entries- elasticidad noun (that force with which a thread, wire, or rod tends to return to a state of rest after it has been twisted)
- torsión noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Swedish
1 entries- torsion noun (the act of turning or twisting)
Turkish
2 entries- burkulma noun (the act of turning or twisting)
- burulma noun (that force with which a thread, wire, or rod tends to return to a state of rest after it has been twisted)
Sample sentences
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A Renault 6 doesn't use coil springs or leaf springs. It uses torsion bars in the suspension.
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Chuck Lampe, 44, an independent publisher in Florida, has been taking shots of Botox deep into the muscles of his legs for 10 years to lessen the discomfort of a genetic disorder called torsion dystonia, an extreme and long-lasting version of the condition commonly called “writer’s cramp.”
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