0 the quality of being thin and delicate, often in a way that is attractive :
He emphasised his elegant slenderness in close-fitting garments of black satin.
We tend to associate slenderness with all kinds of positive attributes, from self-control to intelligence.
They had many bad moments, thinking of the slenderness of their resources.
Her remarkable slenderness was mostly concealed under a pair of baggy black trousers.
The church dominates the town with a tower and spire of subtly alarming slenderness and height.
The slenderness of the chances of anything being built as a result of the competition was revealed.
The slenderness of their means does not allow them to enlarge their businesses.
To first order with respect to the slenderness parameter, the near-field flow appears to be two-dimensional in each transverse plane along the bow.
An asymptotic theory was then derived, uniformly valid for all frequencies and angles of incidence and correct to second order in the slenderness parameter.
Due to the slenderness assumption, the flow in the vicinity of the hull is two-dimensional in each cross-section.
This last one is obtained under the slenderness assumption.
