tortuosity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature. countable,uncountable
  2. Crookedness. countable,uncountable
    — So far from seeking to "pettifogulise"—i.e., to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster's minute tortuosities of construction—exactly in the opposite direction, from mere excess of sincerity, most unwillingly I found, in almost everybody's words, an unintentional opening left for double interpretations.
  3. A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media. countable,uncountable

词形变化

tortuosities plural

词源

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