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Definition of Tortuosity

1. Noun. A tortuous and twisted shape or position. "The acrobat performed incredible contortions"

Definition of Tortuosity

1. Noun. crookedness ¹

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Definition of Tortuosity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tortuosity

Literary usage of Tortuosity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Solid Geometry by Percival Frost (1886)
"Measure of tortuosity. Let 7, TO, n and l + dl,m + dm, ... To find the measure of tortuosity of a tortuous curve. , n + dn, pq' = (dl)* + (dm)* + (dnf ; . ..."

2. Solid Geometry by Percival Frost (1875)
"Integral and Average tortuosity. These are respectively the angle through which the osculating plane has turned iu passing from end to end of any portion of ..."

3. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"Thus the order of tortuosity of a surface locus is zero. Each of the surface loci, which form the curve locus by their intersection, will be called a ..."

4. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by John C. Da Costa (1919)
"In a healthy person one occasionally meets with a general dilatation and even with an abnormal tortuosity of the cutaneous veins of the chest, a peculiarity ..."

5. Electromagnetic Theory by Oliver Heaviside (1893)
"tortuosity of a Curve, and Various Forms of Expansion. ... It turns round the tangent, and the measure of the tortuosity is the amount of turning per unit ..."

6. Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland by John Hill Burton (1852)
"Hence the strange tortuosity of his councils at this time. He was not a man of any very positive clerical belief himself. He might have belonged to any one ..."

7. Buenos Ayres and Argentine Gleanings: With Extracts from a Diary of Salado by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1865)
"Agreeable Sensations on entering Cordova—tortuosity of Road — Geographical Position of this City — Period of its Foundation—Number of ..."

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