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名詞

tortuosity (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tortuosities)

1. tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
2. Crookedness.
   • 1853, Thomas De Quincey, “Introduction to the World of Strife”, in Autobiographic Sketches (De Quincey’s Works; I), London: James Hogg & Sons, OCLC 6497971, page 59:

     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. (physics) A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.

Further reading

• tortuosity on Wikipedia.