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Meanings of sinuosity in inglês

espanhol
sinuosidad de un rio

Ratio of the curvilinear length (along the curve) and the Euclidean distance (straight line) between end points of a curve.

sinuosidad de un rio
português
sinuosidade

Having curves.

sinuosidade
Synonyms
Examples for "sinuousness"
Examples for "sinuousness"
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His tail moved with a soft ominous sinuousness as he looked.
The Necromancers
2
Susannah slipped into the woods at the side of the road with eely sinuousness.
The waste lands

A property of curve having many twists or turns.

Usage of sinuosity in inglês
1
They swept and pulled and tripped and slammed, moving with quick and jerky sinuosity.
The Scar
2
Each sinuosity forms a marsh more or less extensive.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
3
The river then trends in a northerly direction for seven miles, without any sinuosity of consequence.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of...
4
The coast stretched eastward with little sinuosity, and was sandy, but not so low as before.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 / Undertaken for the purp...
5
The river's sinuosity itself generates enormous force.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
6
Still, his movements had the sinuosity of youth, and there was impressive strength in his shoulders and arms.
The Wolf’s Hour
7
This darkness had a strange sinuosity, seemed to coil and writhe around me as I descended through it.
Fear nothing
8
So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly.
The People That Time Forgot
9
With an alacrity and sinuosity more like that of a cat, Rocky transformed his headlong plunge into an immediate retreat.
Dark rivers of the heart
10
Through the gloom he divined a new swiftness in her step, a certain sinuosity of movement that suddenly melted into immobility.
A Man and His Money
11
Wentworth, the oldest living contortionist, is about seventy years of age, but seems to have lost none of his earlier sinuosity.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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.
The Rise of David Levinsky
13
He saw how they set their little feet, how they carried their chins, with what grace and sinuosity they swung their bodies.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
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.
The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerus...
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.
The Glory of Ippling
16
The eruption travelled forty miles in a straight line, or sixty, including sinuosities.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Translations for sinuosity
português
sinuosidade
Sinuosity through the time