See Also: tortuosity(dictionary)

tortuosity (iou)



tortuosity noun. LME.
[Late Latin tortuositas, from Latin tortuosus: see TORTUOUS, -ITY.]
The quality or condition of being tortuous; twistedness, sinuosity; an instance of this. LME.
A twisted or sinuous thing; a twist, a turn (lit. & fig.). M17.
A measure of the degree to which a pathway, esp. a pore in a material, is convoluted, calculated as the ratio of its actual length to the straight-line distance between its ends. M20.