montuosity
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]montuosity (plural montuosities)
- The property of being montuous or having mountains.
- Various appearances from which the Moon's montuosity is argued.
- A mountain or mountainlike unevenness on a surface; a mountain peak.
- But had these mountains been diaphanous, we could never have seen those luminous montuosities.
References
[edit]- Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1661), translating the Italian montuosità and (in the plural) cuspidi.