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RIGID
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapable of or resistant to bending
Example:
a stiff neck
Synonyms:
rigid; stiff
Classified under:
Similar:
inflexible (resistant to being bent)
Derivation:
rigidity; rigidness (the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
Classified under:
Similar:
semirigid (having a form maintained by a rigid internal structure as well as by internal gas pressure)
Domain category:
aeronautics; astronautics (the theory and practice of navigation through air or space)
Antonym:
nonrigid (designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
Example:
an unbending will to dominate
Synonyms:
inflexible; rigid; unbending
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unadaptable (not adaptable)
Derivation:
rigidness (the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Fixed and unmoving
Example:
a face rigid with pain
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
nonmoving; unmoving (not in motion)
Derivation:
rigidness (the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Incapable of compromise or flexibility
Synonyms:
rigid; strict
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intolerant (unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion)
Derivation:
rigidity; rigidness (the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe)
Context examples:
It was a night when he had taken her at the expense of a month's rigid economizing on food.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The niobium tungsten oxides used in the current work have a rigid, open structure that does not trap the inserted lithium, and have larger particle sizes than many other electrode materials.
(New class of materials could be used to make batteries that charge faster, University of Cambridge)
Most other wearable electronics rely on rigid electronic components mounted on plastic or textiles.
(Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes, University of Cambridge)
Additional findings support previous indications the moon's icy shell is rigid and in the process of freezing solid.
(Ocean on Saturn moon could be as salty as the Dead Sea, NASA)
A rigid, removable sheet that covers the back of a device.
(Device Backpanel Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
The jugglers were on their heads once more, bounding about with rigid necks, playing the while in perfect time and tune.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then he stopped, and with a violent effort he resumed a cold, rigid calmness, which was, perhaps, more suggestive of danger than his hot-headed outburst.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dilation of the valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart by use of a surgeon's finger or rigid instrument.
(Mitral Commissurotomy, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
Bone-like rigid connective tissue covering the root of a tooth from the cementoenamel junction to the apex and lining the apex of the root canal.
(Cementum, NCI Thesaurus)
The process by which resin-based materials are polymerized to become rigid.
(Dental Curing, NCI Thesaurus)
