English Explanatory Dictionary

tortuosity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
  2. Crookedness.
  3. A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.

Word forms

tortuosity tortuosities

Etymology

From tortuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.

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