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By Jack Joseph Smith
Torque - That which produces
or tends to produce torsion or
rotation: the moment of a system
of forces which tends to
cause rotation: the pressure
measured in foot-pounds, exerted
by a rotating shaft.
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A handwritten definition explains torque as the force or pressure that produces torsion or rotation, measured in foot-pounds from a rotating shaft.
The page reads like a copied technical definition inside a poetry archive. Its mechanical vocabulary gives the collection another register: pressure, rotation, and force as possible metaphors for emotional or social motion.
Claude
A handwritten technical note defines torque as pressure or force that produces torsion and rotation.
The page imports physics terminology into the manuscript sequence. Its focus on rotation and pressure gives an abstract mechanical counterpart to the collection's human tensions.