rigid
IPA: rˈɪdʒʌd
noun
- (aviation) An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
- A bicycle with no suspension system.
adjective
- Stiff, rather than flexible.
- Fixed, rather than moving.
- Rigorous and unbending.
- Uncompromising.
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Examples of "rigid" in Sentences
- It has a rigidness to it as well.
- The opposite of rigidity is flexibility.
- Also, the writing is too rigid and dark.
- The body of the gaiter is preferably rigid.
- He was rigid and had a character of asperity.
- The patient is rigid, with the teeth clenched.
- The crosspiece gives rigidity to the structure.
- The rigidity of the Soviet Union was legendary.
- The rigidness of current policy is not a solution.
- A rigid type endoscope comprises an ocular and a rigid optic tube.
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