sinuosity
sinuousness

And behind it came the sinuosity of its body.

The mammoth tube's stable sinuosity had started to move.

The sinuosity index plays a part in mathematical descriptions of streams.

In most cases the wandering and changes in sinuosity is as a result of external forces.

This is because rivers with high sinuosity will have larger meanders and greater opportunity for longer lakes to form.

This extreme sinuosity is one of the unique features of Cambodian dance.

These works are rather gentle, even the famous "Tyger" is a study in sinuosity.

But his faintly scaled body, in spite of its odd sinuosity, was clad just like the others.

Sinuosity is one of the channel types that a stream may assume over all or part of its course.

The sinuosity is the ratio between the actual length and the straight-line distance from source to mouth.

Sinuosity in submarine channels is a feature regularly observed on seismic maps.

"Tango," from 1919, is a study in sinuosity, as a dashing couple enthusiastically tries the dance steps.

They writhed in our general direction, their movements peculiarly stiff and lacking sinuosity.

Sinuosity Index has a non-mathematical utility as well.

This darkness had a strange sinuosity, seemed to coil and writhe around me as I descended through it.

Nor could he distinguish more than a very shadowy glimpse of forms which glided close to the ground with an unpleasant sinuosity.

Slightly shorter than average, with dark tones of skin and hair, he betrayed a fencer's sinuosity even when seated.

In studies of rivers, the sinuosity index is similar but not identical to the general form given above, being given by:

Seeing me stare in return, it reared its head, its long neck moving with reptilian sinuosity.

Mayall et al. (2006) provides the best summary that discusses the causes of sinuosity.

With a sickening sinuosity, it coiled itself.

The sinuosity of submarine channels is a characteristic instantly recognisable as being shared with fluvial systems.

The sinuosity index can be explained, then, as the deviations from a path defined by the direction of maximum downslope.

He has clearly heard (or reinvented) progressive rock, but he also knows the sinuosity of samba and carnival rhythms.

The sinuosity of a sine function (over a whole number of half-periods) can be calculated to be 1.216.