untwisted
Speech parts
1. untwisted - Adjective
2. untwisted - Verb
3. untwisted - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
not twisted; formerly twisted but now straight
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A twisted pair line rejects electromagnetic interference (EMI) and crosstalk better than a single wire or an untwisted pair.
If the applied voltage is large enough, the liquid crystal molecules in the center of the layer are almost completely untwisted and the polarization of the incident light is not rotated as it passes through the liquid crystal layer.
In lefthanded β-helices, the strands themselves are quite straight and untwisted; the resulting helical surfaces are nearly flat, forming a regular triangular prism shape, as shown for the 1QRE archaeal carbonic anhydrase at right.