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Noun: tortuosity
  1. A tortuous and twisted shape or position
    "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"
    - tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness

Derived forms: tortuosities

See also: tortuous

Type of: distorted shape, distortion

Encyclopedia: Tortuosity

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