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tortuosity en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
2. (countable, uncountable) Crookedness.
   • 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. 1853, Thomas De Quincey, “Introduction to the World of Strife”, in Autobiographic Sketches (De Quincey’s Works; I), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 59:
3. (countable, uncountable) A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.

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Translations (4)

es tortuosidad ((physics) property of curve being tortuous) · de Tortuosität ((physics) property of curve being tortuous) · pt tortuosidade ((physics) property of curve being tortuous) · sv tortuositet ((physics) property of curve being tortuous)