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rotundity
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the roundness of a 3-dimensional object [syn: sphericity , sphericalness , globosity , globularness ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Latin rotunditas "roundness," from rotundus "round" (see rotund ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being rotund.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rotundity \Ro*tund"i*ty\, n. [L. rotunditas: cf. F. rotondit['e].] The state or quality of being rotu?; roundness; sphericity; circularity. Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! --Shak. Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness. For the more ...
Usage examples of rotundity.
On the other hand, a cleft scrotum, an ill-developed penis, perhaps hypospadias or epispadias, rotundity of the mammae, and feminine contour have also provoked accounts of similar instances.
His figure had improved, for country exercise and a sparer diet had checked the movement towards rotundity.
On the other hand, a cleft scrotum, an ill-developed penis, perhaps hypospadias or epispadias, rotundity of the mammae, and feminine contour have also provoked accounts of similar instances.
In other words, Ibn Mukla was the first who changed the Kufic into the new Naskhi character, which Ibn Bawwab improved after him by imparting rotundity and clearness to the new letters, and which Ibn Yakut Al-Mausili brought afterwards to the greatest perfection in A.
While the rolling rotundity of the resounding thunder was drumming up to its last grandeur, a strong stench of sulfur swept down across the sea and hung in spreading fumes upon the sea-wall, until with a sharp crackle as percussive as a square of muskets, another fire, a ball of flaming gas enveloping a thunderstone, darted across the sky and dashed with a hissing explosion into the sea.
Its rotundity was first lost, it assumed the semblance of a featureless disk of pallid light, which swiftly widened till it obscured all else, then seemed to advance upon and envelope her bodily, so that she became spiritually a part of it, an atom of identity engulfed in a limpid world of glareless light, light that had had no rays and issued from no source but was circumambient and universal.
The mouth had not quite relinquished rotundity of curve for the firm angularities of middle life.
The previously gilded but now dreary hills began to lose their daylight aspects of rotundity, and to become black discs vandyked against the sky, all nature wearing the cloak that six o’clock casts over the landscape at this time of the year.