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Meaning of tortuosity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Deutsch Tortuosität
Español tortuosidad
Português tortuosidade

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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