Torsion
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The term torsion may refer the following:
- In mathematics, measuring curvature of some sort:
- Torsion of curves
- Torsion tensor in differential geometry
- Analytic torsion (also called Ray-Singer torsion)
- Reidemeister torsion (also called R-torsion, Franz torsion, de Rham torsion)
- Whitehead torsion
- The second is algebraic, relating to the set of elements that vanish (e.g., elements of finite order).
- In medicine:
- In physics and engineering:
- In biology:
- Torsion (gastropod), a developmental feature of all gastropods

