Noun

(en noun)

One who twists.

# One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.

* Wallis

He, twirling his twister , makes a twist of the twine.

(colloquial) A tornado.

(carpentry) A girder

(Craig)

(dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.

(British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.

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The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.

Noun

(en-noun)

The highest point of something.

(anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.

(geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.

(mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.

(graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.

(computer graphics) A point in space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.

(optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.

(nuclear, or, particle physics) An interaction point.

(astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.