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tortuosity

[ tawr-choo-os-i-tee ]

noun

, plural tor·tu·os·i·ties.
  1. the state of being tortuous; twisted form or course; crookedness.
  2. a twist, bend, or crook.
  3. a twisting or crooked part, passage, or thing.


tortuosity

/ ˌtɔːtjʊˈɒsɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being tortuous
  2. a twist, turn, or coil
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tortuosity1

From the Late Latin word tortuōsitās, dating back to 1595–1605. See tortuous, -ity
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Example Sentences

The team analyzed the width and tortuosity of retinal arteries and veins to develop prediction models for stroke, heart attack, and death from circulatory disease.

We had twenty miles to go, "as the birds fly," but the tortuosity of the channels rendered our course fully a third longer.

These changes give rise to marked tortuosity of the vessels.

There is no tortuosity of thought to pardon or to forget; it is one unbroken interwoven strain of music, of imagery, of sentiment.

I allude to the enormous, almost preternatural magnitude of the wild-grape vine, and its tortuosity.

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