sinuosity
Americannoun
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sinuosities
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Often sinuosities. a curve, bend, or turn.
a sinuosity of the road.
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a sinuous form or character.
noun
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the quality of being sinuous
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a turn, curve, or intricacy
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Etymology
Origin of sinuosity
From the Medieval Latin word sinuōsitās, dating back to 1590–1600. See sinuous, -ity
Example Sentences
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The industrious Saab couture atelier had got to work to weave the signature crystals, sequins and pearls together to - as the program notes put it - depict “the sinuosity of organic forms.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 4, 2018
The industrious Saab couture atelier had got to work to weave the signature crystals, sequins and pearls together to — as the program notes put it — depict “the sinuosity of organic forms.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2018
Over time, the sinuosity of the stream becomes increasingly exaggerated, and the channel migrates around within its flood plain, forming a meandering pattern.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
On the field, "he glides with the easy sinuosity of an antelope at full speed", wrote leading sportswriter EHD Sewell.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
The Zambesi is thought to present a great difficulty to the erosion theory, because of the sinuosity of the chasm below the Victoria Falls.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
Even those who fail to follow all the sinuosities of his reasoning must sense that, whatever else he has done or left undone, Niebuhr has restored to Protestantism a Christian virility.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sentences in longhand seemed to take on some of the sinuosities of script.
From Time Magazine Archive
To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boats were immediately launched, and having pulled a short distance from the land, we set the sails, our course being directed to the outer point in view, to avoid the sinuosities of the coast.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
We started at three in the morning, and after infinite sinuosities and meanderings over this hilly country, we arrived, by nine o’clock, at the foot of the Bourhan-Bota.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
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