rigidity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape.
The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.

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rigidity rigidities

From rigid + -ity, from Latin rigiditas.

rigidness

flexibility ductility malleability softness

Born rigidity modulus of rigidity nonrigidity rigidity modulus semirigidity superrigidity

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