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knottiness|ˈnɒtɪnɪs|
[f. knotty + -ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being knotty (lit. and fig.).
1607Hieron Wks. I. 409 Such children, the knottines of whose nature is refined and reformed and made smooth by grace. 1616Donne Serm. (ed. Alford) V. cxxxvii. 463 The wryness, the knottiness, the entangling of the serpent. 1662Herne in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 246 The bark of such pollards cannot be gotten off because of its knottyness. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ii. 1167 Never was such a tangled knottiness, But thus authority cuts the Gordian thro'.
2. Geom. The minimum number of nodes in the projection of a knot (sense 9) on a plane or similar surface.
1877Tait in Trans. R. Soc. Edin. XXVIII. 148 There are, therefore, projections of every knot which give a minimum number of intersections,..this minimum number..we will call Knottiness. |