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flexuosity|flɛksjuːˈɒsɪtɪ|
[ad. F. flexuosité, ad. L. flexuōsitāt-em, n. of state f. flexuōsus: see prec. and -ity.]
The quality or condition of being flexuous; an instance of this; a winding.
1611Cotgr., Flexuosite, flexuositie; a most crooked or manifold turning. 1737Ozell Rabelais iii. iv. (1807) II. 261 By long ambages, circuits, and flexuosities. 1830R. Knox Béclard's Anat. 168 The flexuosity consists in a course alternately undulated above and below a straight line. 1853Phillips Rivers Yorksh. ix. 243 [Roads] which exhibit a negligent flexuosity. |