tenuity

Example Sentences

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The travelling organs, moreover, increase in size in proportion to the tenuity of the fluid to be acted upon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

An example of different degrees of purity will be found in washes of water-colours of different tenuity.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.

That they should be completely transparent through such enormous dimensions shows their extreme tenuity.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

All the spines are of excessive tenuity and sharpness; they are straight, long, and not plumose.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

In practice the average degree of tenuity to which the gold is reduced is not nearly so great as the last example quoted above.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various