tortuosity

We had twenty miles to go, "as the birds fly," but the tortuosity of the channels rendered our course fully a third longer.

These changes give rise to marked tortuosity of the vessels.

There is no tortuosity of thought to pardon or to forget; it is one unbroken interwoven strain of music, of imagery, of sentiment.

I allude to the enormous, almost preternatural magnitude of the wild-grape vine, and its tortuosity.