Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sinuosity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sinuosity \Sin`u*os"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Sinuosities}. [Cf. F.
sinuosit['e].]
1. Quality or state of being sinuous.
2. A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a
series of windings; a wave line; a curve.
A line of coast certainly amounting, with its
sinuosities, to more than 700 miles. --Sydney
Smith.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sinuosity
n : having curves; "he hated the sinuosity of mountain roads"
[syn: {sinuousness}]
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