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Definition: Tortuosity |
TortuosityNoun1. 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. |
Date "tortuosity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | The ratio of the actual length of river channel measured along the middle of the main channel to the axial length of the river. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TortuositySynonyms: contortion (n), crookedness (n), torsion (n), tortuousness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convolution | Winding; Verb: convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages; torsion; inosculation; reticulation; (crossing); rivulation; roughness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Tortuosity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tortuosity" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tortuosity | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tortuosity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pasinqeritet, dredhje (curl, trill). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعرج (meander, pucker, sinuosity, twine). (various references) | |
Czech | kroucení (roll, torsion, wiggle, wrench, wriggle). (various references) | |
Dutch | bochtigheidscoëfficiënt. (various references) | |
Finnish | mutkaisuus (crook). (various references) | |
French | tortuosité, sinuosité, coefficient de tortuosité. (various references) | |
German | Windung (coil, convolution, meander, revolution, thread, undulation, whorl, wind), Laufentwicklung. (various references) | |
Greek | συντελεστής στρεβλότητος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tekervényesség (crookedness, tortuousity), kanyargás (meander, winding, wriggle), görbeség (tortuousity, twist). (various references) | |
Italian | tortuosit . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortuositytay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tortuosidade (sinuosity). (various references) | |
Russian | уклончивость (evasiveness, non committal), извилистость (deviousness, sinuosity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zavojitost, vijugavost (sinuosity). (various references) | |
Swedish | vindlingsförhållande. (various references) | |
Turkish | namussuzluk (bawdry, dishonesty, dishonorableness, dishonourableness, ignominy, lewdness, rascality, unchastity), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), eğrilik (camber, cast, crookedness, curvature, deviousness, obliqueness, skew, slant, unevenness, warp, wryness), dolambaçlılık, dolaşıklık (entanglement, maziness, Ravel, tangle), çarpıklık (cast, crookedness, distortion, irregularity, obliqueness, perversion, skew, warp, wryness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trạng thái quanh co (tortuousness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-o-r-s-t-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: outtrots, torosity, tortious, touristy. | |
-3 letters: outtrot, riotous, risotto, tourist, tryouts. | |
-4 letters: outsit, stoury, suitor, tootsy, torous, trouts, trouty, trusty, tryout, tutors, tuttis. | |
-5 letters: ottos, riots, roost, roots, rooty, rotis, rotos, roust, routs, rusty, rutty, ryots, sooty, story, stour, stout, stroy, strut, sturt, tiros, toits, toots, toros, torot, torsi, torso, torts, torus, tours, touts, toyos. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-o-r-s-t-t-t-u-y" | |
+5 letters: poststimulatory. | |
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