RIGIDITY
\ɹɪd͡ʒˈɪdɪti], \ɹɪdʒˈɪdɪti], \ɹ_ɪ_dʒ_ˈɪ_d_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of RIGIDITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Severity; rigor.
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The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; - opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
By Oddity Software
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Severity; rigor.
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The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; - opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Great stiffness of fibre, or want of suppleness. The stiffness of the dead body, Cadaveric rigidity, (F.) Roideur ou Rigidite cadaverique, is one of the signs of the cessation of life. It may be removed, however, for a time, by the injection into the arteries of oxygenated defibrinated blood. See Rigor mortis.
By Robley Dunglison
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Stiffness; of muscles, tonic contraction.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
