torsion
noun/ˈtɔːʃn/
/ˈtɔːrʃn/
[uncountable] (specialist)- the action of twisting something, especially one end of something while the other end is held fixedWord Originlate Middle English (as a medical term denoting colic or in the sense ‘twisting’ (especially of a loop of the intestine)): via Old French from late Latin torsio(n-), variant of tortio(n-) ‘twisting, torture’, from Latin torquere ‘to twist’.
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