Meander

The word meander has a number of senses.

Some places in Tasmania, Australia:

A bend in a river, also known as an oxbow loop. This usage derives from the name of the Maeander River in Turkey.

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View on on a meander in the Meuse in the French Ardennes

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Meanders in a river

To meander: For a river to behave like the river Maeander. This is a term for the snaking movement a river may make as it runs 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 art and architecture, a meander is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif. See meander (architecture).
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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Meander

See also: Meander, Architecture, Ardennes, Art, Australia, Closed curve, Erosion, Maeander River, Mathematics