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Tortuousness

Definition: Tortuousness

Tortuousness

Noun

1. A tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Tortuousness

Synonyms: contortion (n), crookedness (n), torsion (n), tortuosity (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Tortuousness

Language Translations for "tortuousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Folterung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καμπυλότησ (curvature, tortuousity), καμπυλότητα (camber, curvature, tortuousity), ελιγμόσ (maneuver, manoeuvre, meander, tortuousity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ortuousnesstay

   

Russian 

  

извлистость. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trạng thái quanh co (tortuosity). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tortuousness

Derivations

Words beginning with "tortuousness": tortuousnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tortuousness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-n-o-o-r-s-s-s-t-t-u-u"

-2 letters: sostenutos.

-3 letters: outsnores, sostenuto, stoutness, strenuous, untrusses.

-4 letters: entrusts, oestrous, outserts, outsnore, outturns, sensuous, sourness, stentors, stoutens, surtouts, testoons, tonsures, tortuous, turnouts, tussores, tutoress, unstress, untruest.

-5 letters: enroots, entrust, estrous, nestors, noosers, nutters, oestrus, onerous, osseous, ostoses, ousters, outruns, outsert, outsets, outturn, runouts, russets, sensors, setouts, sooners, soonest, soroses, sourest, souters, stentor, stoners, stoures.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-o-o-r-s-s-s-t-t-u-u"
 

+2 letters: fortuitousness, tortuousnesses.

 

+4 letters: fortuitousnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tortuousness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 72 74 75 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0072 0074 0075 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548184868781878580718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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