tortuosity

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Our tents are played upon by the flickering shadows of the vast pipal-tree that rises in a laocoön tortuosity of roots out of an old well.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

This naturally suggests the ideas of curvature and tortuosity, which are fully dealt with mathematically, before the notion of velocity is introduced.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

Step by step the tortured mind of Chopin arrived at a state of sickly irritability; his emotions increased to a feverish tremor, producing that involution, that tortuosity of thought, which mark his latest works.

From Life of Chopin by Cook, Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker

Varix, vā′riks, n. abnormal dilatation or tortuosity of a vein:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

No description could exaggerate the tortuosity of the Linggi or the abruptness of its windings.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)