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Sinuosity vs Tortuosity - What's the difference?

sinuosity | tortuosity |

As nouns the difference between sinuosity and tortuosity

is that sinuosity is the property of being sinuous while tortuosity is crookedness.

sinuosity

English

Noun

(sinuosities)
  • The property of being sinuous.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}

    Synonyms

    *windiness (the state of being windy)

    tortuosity

    English

    Noun

  • crookedness