tortuosity

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Definition of tortuosity

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
  2. (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.”
  3. (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.

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