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A tortuous and twisted shape or position
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tortuosity
Word definitions for tortuosity in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tortuosity is a property of curve being tortuous (twisted; having many turns). There have been several attempts to quantify this property. Tortuosity is commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media , such as soils and snow.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions" [syn: tortuousness , torsion , contortion , crookedness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. crookedness
Usage examples of tortuosity.
There are infinite tortuosities one can bring to plot development if only you allow your characters to move along the time axis, and I, for one, can resist them, so that I have written a number of time-travel stories, including one novel, The End of Eternity.
Schaumwein very sensibly has eschewed the temptation to translate Hopkins' confused grammar and neologistic tortuosities into corresponding visual obscurities.