tortuosity

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It could not be expected that while keeping a considerable distance from water, would follow its amazing tortuosity, probably surpasses that of any river on the globe.

From The Lost Trail by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

This naturally suggests the ideas of curvature and tortuosity, which are fully dealt with mathematically, before the notion of velocity is introduced.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

It is not straight as in health, but is tortuous, because the overgrowth in the walls, which makes it thick, has also made it longer than normal, thus producing tortuosity.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

How little of the tortuosity of metaphysics is here;—but what grand efficacity of super-ethics!

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

He who cheats his neighbour believes in tortuosity, and, as Carlyle says, has the Supreme Quack for his God.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir