: a sweet-smelling herb with small leaves that is used in cooking.6 ENTRIES FOUND: 1  thyme. 2  thyme camphor. 3  thyme dodder. 4  thyme-leaved sandwort. 5  thyme-leaved speedwell. 6  basil thyme. 7  cat thyme. 8  creeping thyme. 9  field thyme. 10  horse thyme. 11  lemon thyme. 12  mother-of-thyme. 13  shepherd's thyme. 14  Virginia thyme. 15  water thyme. 16  wild thyme.
By Andrew Zimmerman Jones. Definition: Torque is the tendency of a force to cause or change rotational motion of a body. Torque is calculated by multiplying Force and distance, so the SI units of torque are newton-meters, or N*m (even though this is the same as joules, torque isn't work or energy, so should just be newton-meters).
Another way of expressing the above equation is that torque is the product of the magnitude of the force and the perpendicular distance from the force to the axis of rotation (i.e. the pivot point). Let the force acting on an object be broken up into its tangential (Ftan) and radial (Frad) components (see Figure 2).