a very rarely-used term that means to be skewed, slightly inaccurate, or in need of some minor adjustment, as in “I think the presentation of those user statistics should be torqued towards our top customers, we want the conclusions to really pop”; adapted from the more common understanding of torque as twisting or rotation, or in more precise terms a force applied perpendicularly to a radius; part of a long and inglorious tradition of co-opting scientific terms for usage in business contexts where they appear superficially relevant, as with titrate, optics, and calibrate