Tortuosity

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a tortuous and twisted shape or position wordnet
  3. 3
    Crookedness. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  4. 4
    A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From tortuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.

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