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sinuation|sɪnjuːˈeɪʃən|
[ad. late L. sinuātio, f. sinuāre to curve, etc.]
1. The act or fact of winding about, or pursuing a winding course.
1653R. G. tr. Bacon's Hist. Winds 80 We call those Accidentall generations of windes, which doe not..beget the impulsive motion of windes, but..by sinuation or winding doe agitate and tumble it.
2. A winding or bending in and out; a sinuosity.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 65 The humane Brain is in proportion to the Body much..larger than the Brains of Brutes,..and fuller of anfractus or sinuations. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. (1765) 175 The Form of the Circumference of Leaves where there are no Angles or Sinuations. 1832Southey Hist. Penins. War III. 148 A road..winding in numberless sinuations along the edge of a deep precipice. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vi. 351 A median sinuation divides this extremity into two lobes. |