English-Dutch translations for torsion

• torsie
  De gegevens over het laden en lossen, of er knik en torsie ontstaat in een schip, worden niet gerapporteerd. The information about loading and unloading, whether twisting or torsion occurs in a ship, is not reported.

Definition of torsion

• 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
• The stopping of arterial haemorrhage in certain cases, by twisting the cut end of the artery

Related words

• retorsion
• torsional
• distorsion
• torsion angle
• torsion wrench