Crossword-Solution: TORSION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Torsion | n. | The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction. |
| Torsion | n. | That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TORSION | anagram | NITROSO, TORINOS |
We have 18 clues for the answer “TORSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mechanical twisting | 1 answer |
| Twisting effect | 1 answer |
| Twisting action | 1 answer |
| Twister's force | 1 answer |
| Tortuous and twisted shape or position | 1 answer |
| State of being twisted. | 1 answer |
| State of being twisted [1933] | 1 answer |
| Result of doing the twist? | 1 answer |
| Process of twisting | 1 answer |
| Kind of spring found in a mousetrap | 1 answer |
| Force applied to open a jar | 1 answer |
| Force applied to a jar lid | 1 answer |
| Twisting force | 2 answers |
| torque | 3 answers |
| COMBINING FORMS TWISTING | 10 answers |
| ACT of twisting | 10 answers |
| A TWISTING FORCE | 10 answers |
| Twisting | 55 answers |
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Sentences with TORSION (5)
Gay describes a child with epispadias whose penis had undergone such torsion on its axis that its inferior surface looked upward to the left, and the child passed urine toward the left shoulder.
Caddy mentions a youth of eighteen who had congenital torsion of the penis with out hypospadias or epispadias.
Among the older writers who describe incurvation or torsion of the penis are Arantius, the Ephemerides, Haenel, Petit, Schurig, Tulpius, and Zacchias.
Paullini mentions a case the result of masturbation, and Hunter speaks of torsion of the penis associated with arthritis.
The axillary artery was seen lying in the wound, pulsating feebly, but had been efficiently closed by the torsion of the machinery.
Quotes with TORSION (2)
We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human — what Lesser means by “grandeur and intimacy” — and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid agitation or be willing to undergo some form of personal torsion; to have our personhood both threatened and amplified.
I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1965–2022).