tortuosity
English edit
Etymology edit
From tortuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.
Noun edit
tortuosity (countable and uncountable, plural tortuosities)
- tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
- Crookedness.
- 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:
- 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.
- (physics) A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.
Translations edit
crookedness — see crookedness
(physics) property of curve being tortuous
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Further reading edit
- tortuosity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia