Crossword clues for sinuosity
sinuosity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sinuosity \Sin`u*os"i*ty\, n.; pl. Sinuosities. [Cf. F. sinuosit['e].]
Quality or state of being sinuous.
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A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve.
A line of coast certainly amounting, with its sinuosities, to more than 700 miles.
--Sydney Smith.
Wiktionary
n. The property of being sinuous.
WordNet
n. having curves; "he hated the sinuosity of mountain roads" [syn: sinuousness]
Wikipedia
Sinuosity, sinuosity index, or sinuosity coefficient of a continuously differentiable curve having at least one inflection point is the ratio of the curvilinear length (along the curve) and the Euclidean distance ( straight line) between the end points of the curve. This dimensionless quantity can also be rephrased as the "actual path length" divided by the "shortest path length" of a curve. The value ranges from 1 (case of straight line) to infinity (case of a closed loop, where the shortest path length is zero) or for an infinitely-long actual path.
Usage examples of "sinuosity".
Ireland would compel us to guard with ships and soldiers a new line of coast, certainly amounting, with all its sinuosities, to more than 700 miles--an addition of polemics, in our present state of hostility with all the world, which must highly gratify the vigorists, and give them an ample opportunity of displaying that foolish energy upon which their claims to distinction are founded.
He rehabilitated the love-business as he and his wife had newly imagined it, and, to disguise the originals the more effectively, he made the girl, whom he had provisionally called Salome, more like himself than Louise in certain superficial qualities, though in an essential nobleness and singleness, which consisted with a great deal of feminine sinuosity and subtlety, she remained a portrait of Louise.
Kzinti ships tended to wedge and spike shapes, a combination of sinuosity and blunt masses.
Mist gathered here, there, and everywhere, according to no pattern the captain recognized, gray tendrils rising to dance and swirl with the sinuosity of living beings.
She was taller and thinner than Kate, and had at times a certain shy, coy sinuosity of movement which gave her a more virginal suggestion than her unmarried sister.
Maxwell so much as to have his wife take this tone with him, when he had followed her up through the sinuosities that always began with her after a certain point.
And we are directed to the sinuosities for posts of observation chiefly instructive.
Through the sinuosities of their vast mythology, he worked cunningly upon the credulity of his people.
Sumner looked down at the dark sinuosities of his hands and flexed them.
Wyndham could not travel the sinuosities of their minds, and it would not have affected his purpose if he could have done so.
Too unsubstantial to sustain its own weight, it sprawls, like the track of a tipsy snail, indeterminately, slowly developing its sinuosities over the irregular surface of a rock, and slightly adherent thereto, throughout its whole length.
It was a sort of Proustian discourse on the sinuosity of time and consciousness.
Paris need not fear the boches at all, went that story, because the gunboat could freely cruise the sinuosities of the Seine throughout the city, the Ourcq Canal and the Marne through Charenton.
Features in the overall pattern include the great size, regional anastomosis, and low sinuosity of the channels.
He walked proudly with head erect—a lion tethered to lions— and there was that in the easy sinuosity of his stride that accentuated his likeness to the jungle beasts that drew the chariot of Caesar along the broad Via Principalis of Castra Sanguinarius.