tortuosity

Other forms: tortuosities

Definitions of tortuosity
  1. noun
    a tortuous and twisted shape or position
    “they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs”
    synonyms: contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuousness
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    type of:
    distorted shape, distortion
    a shape resulting from distortion
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