the action of twisting something, especially one end of something while the other end is held fixed (物体等一端固定的)扭转 Word 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’.