TORTUOSITY

tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness

(noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position; “they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs”; “the acrobat performed incredible contortions”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

tortuosity (countable and uncountable, plural tortuosities)

crookedness

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

Source: Wiktionary



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17 May 2025

ANTHOZOAN

(noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed


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