tortuosity

Definitions

1. tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
   countable, uncountable
2. Crookedness.
   countable, uncountable
3. A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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