# tortuosity

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
2. Crookedness.
3. A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.

## Etymology
From tortuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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