Definition of Torsive

1. twisted [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Torsive

torsion of appendage
torsion of testis
torsion spasm
torsion testis
torsion wrench
torsion wrenches
torsional
torsional deformity
torsionally
torsioned
torsionful
torsionic
torsionless
torsionometer
torsions
torsive (current term)
torsive occlusion
torsiversion
torsk
torsks
torso
torsoclusion
torsoes
torsoless
torsolike
torsor
torsors
torsos
tort
tort-feasor

Literary usage of Torsive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, John Radford Young, Wm S Orr, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1856)
"6 cwt. = 672 IDS. X б 335 Deduct }th = = 10 2 8, cube root 2 inches. Table of torsive strengths of cylindrical shafts \ inch diameter ; weights acting at ..."

2. The Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatises on the Principles of by William Somerville Orr (1860)
"At two other points, when the connecting-rod of the engine is acting in the most favourable position, the shaft receives a torsive strain through the crank ..."

3. The Mechanics' Magazine (1853)
"The arrangement proposed by Mr. Brae is altogether on a different principle, depending for its effect on a torsive, or twisting force, applied to a long ..."

4. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1853)
"The arrangement proposed by Mr. Brae is altogether on a different principle, depending for its effect on a torsive, or twisting force, applied to a long ..."

5. The Elasticity and Resistance of the Materials of Engineering by William Hubert Burr (1915)
"Hence a torsive stress is wholly a shearing stress on normal sections of the piece subjected to torsion. It is further important to observe that inasmuch as ..."

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