Meander

The word meander has a number of senses.

  • The Meander River, located in Turkey.
  • Some places in Tasmania, Australia:
  • A bend in a river, also known as an oxbow loop. This usage derives from the name of the Meander River in Turkey.
  • To meander: For a river to behave like the river Meander. This is a term for the snaking movement a river may make is it is running through a flat plain with easily erosible soils.
  • To walk at a lazy pace and not usually in a straight line, like a meandering river.
  • In mathematics, a meander is a self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times (see meander (mathematics)).

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