Shown is the toroidal field and the coils ( blue ) that produce it, the plasma current ( red ) and the poloidal field produced by it, and the resulting twisted field when these are overlaid.

In a twisted nematic device ( still the most common liquid crystal device ), the surface alignment directions at the two electrodes are perpendicular to each other, and so the molecules arrange themselves in a helical structure, or twist.

With age American species ' becomes grey and darker, thick and deeply furrowed ; the furrows run longitudinally, and tend to twist around the trunk as the tree ages ; it sometimes reminds one of a large cable with twisted strands.

Each bundle consists of twisted pairs that have different twist rates.

Unshielded twisted pair cable with different twist rates

* An aerodynamic twist can be introduced to the wing with the leading edge near the wing tip twisted downward.

The Hindu deity Shiva and his followers were described in the scriptures as wearing " jaTaa ", meaning " twisted locks of hair ", probably derived from the Dravidian word " Sadai ", which means to twist or to wrap.

The word comes from Latin torquis ( or torques ), from torqueo, " to twist ", because of the twisted shape of the collar.

Booth's Deringer was unusual in that the rifling twisted counterclockwise ( left-handed twist ), rather than the typical clockwise twist used on most Philadelphia Deringers.

Pouring all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes, the ingredients are mixed then strained and served " straight up " ( without ice ) in a chilled cocktail glass and garnished with either a green olive or a twist of lemon ( a strip of the peel, usually squeezed or twisted to express volatile oils onto the surface of the drink ).

Common twisted rope generally consists of three strands and is normally right-laid, or given a final right-handed twist.

For daily purposes, a simple " double twist " knot is most popular, where two points in the upper edge of lungi are brought together and twisted around twice, with the ends tucked in at the waist.

The building is constructed in nine segments of five-story pentagons that twist as it rises ; the topmost segment is twisted ninety degrees clockwise with respect to the ground floor.

Wiliwili means " repeatedly twisted " in the Hawaiian language and refers to the seedpods, which dehisce, or twist open, to reveal the seeds.

The weight of the drop spindle combined with the twist in the singles, causes the drop spindle to turn in the opposite direction that the singles were twisted in until the two singles are plied together.

Also featured: A twisted French couple, a nasty twist on the Slip and Slide, Chu-Chi tells a mom that her son is a drug dealer, and Lance prank calls a hair salon to get his “ poodle ” trimmed.

The story has a surprise twist at the end, worthy of the most twisted of the plotters whose villainy drives the plot until the final scenes of the novel.

Safety wire pliers work as follows: The technician grabs the two loose ends of the wire to be twisted in the end of the pliers ; he then locks the handles of the pliers closed, which secures the loosed wire ends in the jaws ; he then grabs the knob at the end the pliers, releases the main body of the pliers, and pulls back on the knob which causes the pliers to twist.

The drink may be garnished with an olive, a " twist " ( a strip of lemon peel squeezed or twisted ), capers, or cocktail onions ( with the onion garnish specifically yielding a vodka Gibson ).

This can also twist, producing a helical pinch that spirals like a twisted or braided rope, and this most closely corresponds to a Birkeland current.

With both hands clasped around the opponent's back, the opponent is twisted over sideways ( clasped hand twist down ).

Sunspot activity will be more pronounced at solar maximum where the magnetic field is twisted to a maximum.

The Babcock Model explains that magnetic fields cause the behavior described by Spörer's law, as well as other effects, which are twisted by the Sun's rotation.

The conductors are sometimes twisted together to ensure that each conductor is equally exposed to any external magnetic fields that could induce unwanted noise.

One possibility is twisted grain alignment along the line of sight due to variation in the galactic magnetic field ; another is the line of sight passes through multiple clouds.

The result was that the formerly straight magnetic field was twisted into a helix, which the particles followed as they travelled around the tube under the influence of the current.

If magnetic field lines follow the strands of a twisted rope, this configuration would have nonzero magnetic helicity ; left-handed ropes would have negative values and right-handed ropes would have positive values.

In a quantum field theory, there can be field configurations of bosons which are topologically twisted.

* On December 4, 1970, the twisted nematic field effect in liquid crystals was filed for patent by Hoffmann-LaRoche in Switzerland, ( Swiss patent No. 532 261 ) with Wolfgang Helfrich and Martin Schadt ( then working for the Central Research Laboratories ) listed as inventors.

* In 1990, under different titles inventors conceived electrooptical effects as alternatives to twisted nematic field effect LCDs ( TN-and STN-LCDs ).

The liquid crystal alignment is chosen so that its relaxed phase is a twisted one ( see Twisted nematic field effect ).

The slider passed through the field frames of the weapon, in which were located the torsion springs ( rope made of animal sinew ), which were twisted around the bow arms, which in turn, were attached to the bowstring.

In physics, K-theory and in particular twisted K-theory have appeared in Type II string theory where it has been conjectured that they classify D-branes, Ramond – Ramond field strengths and also certain spinors on generalized complex manifolds.

An extension of the tensor field idea incorporates an extra line bundle L on M. If W is the tensor product bundle of V with L, then W is a bundle of vector spaces of just the same dimension as V. This allows one to define the concept of tensor density, a ' twisted ' type of tensor field.

Over the field of real numbers, the real component of the identity of these algebraically twisted forms of E < sub > 6 </ sub > coincide with the three real Lie groups mentioned above, but with a subtlety concerning the fundamental group: all adjoint forms of E < sub > 6 </ sub > have fundamental group Z / 3Z in the sense of algebraic geometry, with Galois action as on the third roots of unity ; this means that they admit exactly one triple cover ( which may be trivial on the real points ); the further non-compact real Lie group forms of E < sub > 6 </ sub > are therefore not algebraic and admit no faithful finite-dimensional representations.

For the collineation group is the projective semilinear group, – this is PGL, twisted by field automorphisms ; formally, where k is the prime field for K ; this is the fundamental theorem of projective geometry.

In particular, twisted forms of a split torus T over a field K are parametrized by elements of the Galois cohomology pointed set with trivial Galois action on the coefficients.

After traversing a field containing the faces of the damned, they come to a dark and twisted replica of Chris and Annie's house.

The rod-shaped molecules align themselves with the electric field instead of the directors, destroying the twisted structure.

A slider passed through the field frames of the weapon, in which were located the torsion springs ( rope made of animal sinew ), which were twisted around the bow arms, which in turn were attached to the bowstring.

* After many rotations, the field lines become highly twisted and bundled, increasing their intensity, and the resulting buoyancy lifts the bundle to the solar surface, forming a bipolar field that appears as two spots, being kinks in the field lines.