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Webster 1913 Edition
Sinuosity
Sinˊu-os′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Sinuosities
(#)
. [Cf. F.
sinuosité
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sinuosity
SINUOS'ITY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
sinuosity
sinuosity
English
Noun
sinuosity (plural sinuosities)
- The property of being sinuous.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
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Synonyms
Translations
the property of being sinuous
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