Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being rigid.
- noun An instance of being rigid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being rigid; stiffness; inflexibility; absence of pliancy; specifically, in mech., resistance to change of form.
- noun Strictness; severity; harshness: as, rigidity of principles or of censure.
- noun Synonyms Inflexibility. See austere, rigor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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 , andsoftness . - noun Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
- noun Obs. orR. Severity; rigor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
rigid ; want ofpliability ; the quality ofresisting change of form; the amount ofresistance with which a body opposes change of form. - noun
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want ofease orelegance . - noun In Economics: synonym for
stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
- noun the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
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Examples
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Unions leaders denounced what they described as rigidity from their negotiating counterparts; government and management urged the unions to take into consideration the gravity of the situation of a company that had been losing some 2 million euros ($3 million) a day.
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Unions leaders denounced what they described as rigidity from their negotiating counterparts; government and management urged the unions to take into consideration the gravity of the situation of a company that had been losing some 2 million euros ($3 million) a day.
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Unions leaders denounced what they described as rigidity from their negotiating counterparts; government and management urged the unions to take into consideration the gravity of the situation of a company that had been losing some 2 million euros ($3 million) a day.
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Unions leaders denounced what they described as rigidity from their negotiating counterparts; government and management urged the unions to take into consideration the gravity of the situation of a company that had been losing some 2 million euros ($3 million) a day.
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But with such a supple, sensitive and compassionate mind, rigidity is something you need never worry about.
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Moreover, in the U.S. today, I think that a case can be made that wage rigidity is a major factor in the current business cycle.
Hayek and Tobin, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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That unique combination of flashiness and rigidity is at the artificial heart of one larger-than-life movie that explodes right off the screen this weekend in theaters.
“Speed Racer” is one for the record books » Scene-Stealers 2008
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There is a certain rigidity and politicization about the issue of child support, custody, and visitation that ignores the plight of fathers.
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Even now a certain German rigidity in Heisenberg can make Weisskopf bristle (he is himself Austrian), but he grants the main thing ” whatever ordinary human failings of which Heisenberg may have been guilty, he ran a bomb program for the Germans which could hardly have been better designed by the Allies themselves.
The Nazis and the Atom Bomb: An Exchange Ambrose, Lee 1991
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But we still confuse strength with rigidity, which is of questionable prudence as the percentage of Americans who say they are Christians decreases.
Carolyn Bucior: Kim Simac vs. Clarence Darrow: How Wisconsin Recalls and Miss USA Mirror Scopes Monkey Trial Carolyn Bucior 2011
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