tortuosity
Americannoun
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the state of being tortuous; twisted form or course; crookedness.
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a twist, bend, or crook.
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a twisting or crooked part, passage, or thing.
noun
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the state or quality of being tortuous
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a twist, turn, or coil
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tortuosity
From the Late Latin word tortuōsitās, dating back to 1595–1605. See tortuous, -ity
Example Sentences
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This necessarily causes a tortuosity of the vessel which can be easily seen in such arteries as the temporals, brachials, radials, and other arteries near the surface of the skin.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
Step by step the tortured mind of Chopin arrived at a state of sickly irritability; his emotions increased to a feverish tremor, producing that involution, that tortuosity of thought, which mark his latest works.
From Life of Chopin by Cook, Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker
More especially it may now be declared that Professor Teufelsdroeckh’s acquirements, patience of research, philosophic, and even poetic vigor, are here made indisputably manifest; and unhappily no less his prolixity and tortuosity and manifold inaptitude….
From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)
It is not straight as in health, but is tortuous, because the overgrowth in the walls, which makes it thick, has also made it longer than normal, thus producing tortuosity.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
No description could exaggerate the tortuosity of the Linggi or the abruptness of its windings.
From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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