Sentence examples for tortuosity from inspiring English sources

The total thunder waveform comes from the entire lightning channel and includes the effects of channel branching and tortuosity, sound propagation in the atmosphere, and acoustic reflections from the local topography.

Trucco said: "When changes occur in some parts of the body, you can see differences in the retinal vessels, eg in width, some vessels become thinner; some become larger; differences in the tortuosity,... or how wriggly the vessels become; there are also differences in the angles when vessels split in two.

The Party whose platform's first real policy is this tortuosity: We will not accept proposed legislation that places the Australian family Lifestyle at risk.

One of the consequences of Mandelbrot's revolution is that it confronts us with the difficulty inherent in measuring the edge of anything, such as a coastline, the "tortuosities" of which Robinson has spent much of his life studying.