Tipping vs Torque - What's the difference?
tipping | torque |
The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
* 2013 , Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd
The dumping of rubbish.
(music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
(physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton-metre or Nm; imperial unit foot-pound or ft.lbf).
* 1978 , James Richard Wertz, Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control , Springer,
To twist or turn something.
A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.
As nouns the difference between tipping and torque
is that tipping is the practice of leaving a tip (gratuity) while torque is a rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton-metre or Nm; imperial unit foot-pound or ft.lbf).As verbs the difference between tipping and torque
is that tipping is present participle of lang=en while torque is to twist or turn something.tipping
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
Verb
(head)torque
English
(wikipedia torque)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 17:
- The relative strengths of the various torques will depend on both the spacecraft environment and the form and structure of the spacecraft itself.
