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Meanings of sinuosity in inglés
español
sinuosidad de un rio Ratio of the curvilinear length (along the curve) and the Euclidean distance (straight line) between end points of a curve.
portugués
sinuosidade Usage of sinuosity in inglés
1
They swept and pulled and tripped and slammed, moving with quick and jerky sinuosity.
2
Each sinuosity forms a marsh more or less extensive.
3
The river then trends in a northerly direction for seven miles, without any sinuosity of consequence.
4
The coast stretched eastward with little sinuosity, and was sandy, but not so low as before.
5
The river's sinuosity itself generates enormous force.
6
Still, his movements had the sinuosity of youth, and there was impressive strength in his shoulders and arms.
7
This darkness had a strange sinuosity, seemed to coil and writhe around me as I descended through it.
8
So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly.
9
With an alacrity and sinuosity more like that of a cat, Rocky transformed his headlong plunge into an immediate retreat.
10
Through the gloom he divined a new swiftness in her step, a certain sinuosity of movement that suddenly melted into immobility.
11
Wentworth, the oldest living contortionist, is about seventy years of age, but seems to have lost none of his earlier sinuosity.
12
He was tall and supple, fair-complexioned, and well-groomed, with a suggestion of self-satisfaction and aloofness in the very sinuosity of his figure.
13
He saw how they set their little feet, how they carried their chins, with what grace and sinuosity they swung their bodies.
14
Hers was a fine frame, broad and square of shoulder, tall and lank of hip as some great tiger-cat, and splendid in its sinuosity.
15
The orchestra wailed an oriental sinuosity of woodwinds and drums, accompanying the hip-twitching, nearly naked, sloe- (by benefit of make-up) eyed, black-haired beauties.
16
The eruption travelled forty miles in a straight line, or sixty, including sinuosities.
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portugués
Sinuosity through the time