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Torque Latin Twisted 10469.Torque 英 Tɔːk]美 Tɔrk 释义

正面 10469.torque
英 [tɔːk]美 [tɔrk]

背面
释义:
n. 转矩,[力] 扭矩;项圈,金属领圈
例句:
1. This fundamental torque that's in attention.这是注意力(attention) 的基本扭矩(torque).

1. 谐音“佛掠”。2. forage => foray.
torque 旋转力,机器等的转矩来自拉丁语 torquere,扭曲,扭转,折磨,来自 PIE*terkw,扭曲,进一步来自 PIE*ter,弯,转, 转动,词源同 turn,throw.后用于工程学术语指旋转力,机器等的转矩。
torque (n.)"rotating force," 1882, from Latin torquere "to twist, turn, turn about, twist awry, distort, torture," from PIE *torkw-eyo-, causative of *terkw- "to twist" (see thwart (adv.)). The word also is used (since 1834) by antiquarians and others as a term for the twisted metal necklace worn anciently by Gauls, Britons, Germans, etc., from Latin torques "collar of twisted metal," from torquere. Earlier it had been called in English torques (1690s). Torque-wrench is from 1941.torque (v.)1570s (implied in torqued "twisted"), from torque (n.)."

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