Rigidity
noun
The quality of being unable to bend or be forced out of shape.
The rigidity of the steel beam keeps the building stable.
Often appears as...
- rigidity of material
- emotional rigidity
noun
The state of being unable or unwilling to change, be open to new ideas, or adapt.
His rigidity on the company's policy made it tough to implement new ideas.
Often appears as...
- rigidity of mind
- cultural rigidity
noun
In medicine, lack of flexibility or normal movement in part of the body.
The patient was experiencing rigidity in their joints due to arthritis.
Often appears as...
- muscular rigidity
- joint rigidity
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Technical
noun
The quality of being unable to bend or be forced out of shape.
The rigidity of the steel beam keeps the building stable.
Often appears as...
- rigidity of material
- emotional rigidity
noun
The state of being unable or unwilling to change, be open to new ideas, or adapt.
His rigidity on the company's policy made it tough to implement new ideas.
Often appears as...
- rigidity of mind
- cultural rigidity
noun
In medicine, lack of flexibility or normal movement in part of the body.
The patient was experiencing rigidity in their joints due to arthritis.
Often appears as...
- muscular rigidity
- joint rigidity
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Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Objects
Refers to solid materials and structural integrity that withstand pressure without deforming.
The rigidity of a concrete pillar is crucial for supporting a bridge.
Pro Tip 2/2Unyielding Nature
Suggests an object's unchanging condition, often implying durability and strength.
The rigidity of a diamond is part of its appeal.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Objects
Refers to solid materials and structural integrity that withstand pressure without deforming.
The rigidity of a concrete pillar is crucial for supporting a bridge.
Pro Tip 2/2Unyielding Nature
Suggests an object's unchanging condition, often implying durability and strength.
The rigidity of a diamond is part of its appeal.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Objects
Refers to solid materials and structural integrity that withstand pressure without deforming.
The rigidity of a concrete pillar is crucial for supporting a bridge.
Pro Tip 2/2Unyielding Nature
Suggests an object's unchanging condition, often implying durability and strength.
The rigidity of a diamond is part of its appeal.
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Max Little: A test for...
a virtuoso ballet dancer in his time. So great progress and treatment has been made over the years. However, there are 6.3 million people worldwide who have the disease, and they have to live with incurable weakness, tremor, rigidity and the other symptoms that go along with the disease, so what we need are objective tools
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A test for Parkinson's...
doing to my friend yam stripling who was a virtuoso ballet dancer in his time so great progress and treatment has been made over the years however there are 6.3 million people worldwide who have the disease and they have to live with incurable weakness tremor rigidity any other symptoms that go along with the
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What's the definition of...
to destroy mechanical inelasticity in people's attitudes and behavior. Someone doing the same thing over and over, or building up a false image of themself and the world, or not adapting to reality by just noticing the banana peel on the ground -- this is automatism, ignorance of one's own mindless rigidity,
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3 lessons on success...
and we have had to face more cultural rigidity than Western women. As a result, I would like to think that we poor, oppressed women actually have some useful, certainly hard-earned lessons to share, lessons that might turn out useful for anyone wishing to thrive in the modern world.
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Could we build a wooden...
The resulting material benefits from wood’s structural rigidity in every direction, allowing it to mimic the compressive strength of concrete and bear loads up to 20 times heavier than traditional lumber. Glulam on the other hand, glues boards together in the same direction,
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Battle Over Bathrooms PIPE...
or people who are transgender. Kind of break that rigidity. So I believe that, as a school district and as a community and as people who care about others, that the more that we can do to help people be more of who they are, the more they're going to be able to be engaged
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The gift and power of...
Because how we deal with our inner world drives everything. Every aspect of how we love, how we live, how we parent and how we lead. The conventional view of emotions as good or bad, positive or negative, is rigid. And rigidity in the face of complexity is toxic.
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The Smallest Bones in...
bone in a human skeleton bone is essentially made up of two components an organic parts collagen which provides the flexibility and a mineral one calcium phosphate which gives the bone rigidity these different compounds are
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Explaining the Tree of...
little projections on either side that helped them to move around on the seafloor some of these segmented creatures developed hard protective skins which gave their bodies some rigidity so now the Seas were filled
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Design at the...
varying in rigidity, opacity and color, corresponding to pressure points on the human body. Its surface, as in nature, varies its functionality not by adding another material or another assembly,
Video examples
Max Little: A test for...
a virtuoso ballet dancer in his time. So great progress and treatment has been made over the years. However, there are 6.3 million people worldwide who have the disease, and they have to live with incurable weakness, tremor, rigidity and the other symptoms that go along with the disease, so what we need are objective tools
Video examples
A test for Parkinson's...
doing to my friend yam stripling who was a virtuoso ballet dancer in his time so great progress and treatment has been made over the years however there are 6.3 million people worldwide who have the disease and they have to live with incurable weakness tremor rigidity any other symptoms that go along with the
Video examples
What's the definition of...
to destroy mechanical inelasticity in people's attitudes and behavior. Someone doing the same thing over and over, or building up a false image of themself and the world, or not adapting to reality by just noticing the banana peel on the ground -- this is automatism, ignorance of one's own mindless rigidity,
Video examples
3 lessons on success...
and we have had to face more cultural rigidity than Western women. As a result, I would like to think that we poor, oppressed women actually have some useful, certainly hard-earned lessons to share, lessons that might turn out useful for anyone wishing to thrive in the modern world.
Video examples
Could we build a wooden...
The resulting material benefits from wood’s structural rigidity in every direction, allowing it to mimic the compressive strength of concrete and bear loads up to 20 times heavier than traditional lumber. Glulam on the other hand, glues boards together in the same direction,
Video examples
Battle Over Bathrooms PIPE...
or people who are transgender. Kind of break that rigidity. So I believe that, as a school district and as a community and as people who care about others, that the more that we can do to help people be more of who they are, the more they're going to be able to be engaged
Video examples
The gift and power of...
Because how we deal with our inner world drives everything. Every aspect of how we love, how we live, how we parent and how we lead. The conventional view of emotions as good or bad, positive or negative, is rigid. And rigidity in the face of complexity is toxic.
Video examples
The Smallest Bones in...
bone in a human skeleton bone is essentially made up of two components an organic parts collagen which provides the flexibility and a mineral one calcium phosphate which gives the bone rigidity these different compounds are
Video examples
Explaining the Tree of...
little projections on either side that helped them to move around on the seafloor some of these segmented creatures developed hard protective skins which gave their bodies some rigidity so now the Seas were filled
Video examples
Design at the...
varying in rigidity, opacity and color, corresponding to pressure points on the human body. Its surface, as in nature, varies its functionality not by adding another material or another assembly,
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Joanna Scott
American Author
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
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Greg Graffin
American Musician
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian.
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Rand Paul
American Politician
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Pope Paul VI
Italian Clergyman
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
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Imogen Heap
English Musician
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.
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Gail Sheehy
American Writer
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
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Rene Burri
Swiss Photographer
I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
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Andrea Hirata
Indonesian Author
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
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Manolo Blahnik
Spanish Designer
My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
Quote examples
Joanna Scott
American Author
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
Quote examples
Greg Graffin
American Musician
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian.
Quote examples
Rand Paul
American Politician
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Pope Paul VI
Italian Clergyman
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Quote examples
Imogen Heap
English Musician
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
Quote examples
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Quote examples
Gail Sheehy
American Writer
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
Quote examples
Rene Burri
Swiss Photographer
I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
Quote examples
Andrea Hirata
Indonesian Author
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
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Manolo Blahnik
Spanish Designer
My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
Example 1 of 10
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