tortuosity
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Definition of tortuosity
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
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(countable, uncountable)Crookedness.
“So far from seeking to "pettifogulise"—i.e., to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster's minute tortuosities of construction—exactly in the opposite direction, from mere excess of sincerity, most unwillingly I found, in almost everybody's words, an unintentional opening left for double interpretations.”
- (countable, uncountable)A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.
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Etymology
From tortuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.
Words you can make from tortuosity
162 playable · top: TOROSITY (11 pts)
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49 words- ROOTY 8 pts
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50 words- ROSY 7 pts
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