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Значения термина sinuosity на английском

испанский
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
        португальский
        sinuosidade

        Having curves.

              sinuosidade

              A property of curve having many twists or turns.

                    Использование термина sinuosity на английском
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                    They swept and pulled and tripped and slammed, moving with quick and jerky sinuosity.
                    The Scar
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                    Each sinuosity forms a marsh more or less extensive.
                    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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                    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...
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                    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...
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                    The river's sinuosity itself generates enormous force.
                    Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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                    Still, his movements had the sinuosity of youth, and there was impressive strength in his shoulders and arms.
                    The Wolf’s Hour
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                    This darkness had a strange sinuosity, seemed to coil and writhe around me as I descended through it.
                    Fear nothing
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                    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
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                    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
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                    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
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                    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
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                    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
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                    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
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                    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...
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                    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
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                    The eruption travelled forty miles in a straight line, or sixty, including sinuosities.
                    The Hawaiian Archipelago
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                    Translations for sinuosity
                    португальский
                    sinuosidade
                    Sinuosity через время