circuity

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A circuitous plan

   A circuitous plan; a roundabout way of doing something.

   • Upon the establishment of a mint at some intermediate place, these useless and inconvenient circuities would be dispensed with, and the expediency and utility of supplying the internal provinces with money would become apparent […]
   • For the only reason why the mortgagee can tack his bond to his mortgage, is to prevent a circuity of suits; it is solely matter of arrangement for that purpose; for the right has no foundation in natural justice.
2. 2

   The state or quality of being circuitous.

   • By adding up all squared values and by dividing the total by the number of vertices we get a number indicating the degree of circuity of the transportation network relative to the given vortex.
   • The avoidance of circuity of action is an alternative defence pleaded by the defendants to a salvage action when the wrongdoing ship in a collision and the salving ship which saves the 'innocent' ship are under the same ownership.
   • And despite the occasional apparent circuity of routing required by the hub-and-spoke system, excess air mileage has increased only about 1 percentage point.
3. 3

   A measure of the ratio of road miles to air miles between two locations.

   • The circuity factor is the average ratio of road miles to air miles between two points on a landscape.

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