tortuosity

noun

1. tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.

   countable, uncountable

2. Crookedness.

   countable, uncountable

   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.

3. A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.

   countable, uncountable

Where it comes from

From tortuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tortuosity (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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