torsion balance

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   measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire

   Broadermeasuring instrument

Questions about torsion balance

What does torsion balance mean?

torsion balance means "measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire".

Is torsion balance a common word?

torsion balance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.