from Latin rigiditas. IPA(key): /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɪdɪti/ rigidity (countable and uncountable, plural rigidities) The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability;...
rigidity modulus (plural rigidity moduli) (physics) An object's tendency to shear, defined as the ratio of shear stress to shear strain shear modulus...
Wikipedia has an article on: Born rigidity Wikipedia The concept was introduced by Max Born in 1909. Born rigidity (uncountable) (quantum mechanics) A...
higher levels, as gegenhalten (paratonic rigidity), catatonic rigidity, hysterical rigidity, and neurotic rigidities and obstinacies. paratone + -ic paratonic...
stiffness (countable and uncountable, plural stiffnesses) Rigidity or a measure of rigidity. Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility. Inelegance;...
Pratt's symptom (medicine, pathology) The presence of rigidity in the muscles of an injured limb preceding the occurrence of gangrene....
“bend”)). (US) IPA(key): /əˈkæmp.si.ə/ acampsia (pathology) Rigidity of a joint. rigidity of a joint ankylosis ^ Thomas, Clayton L., ed. Taber's Cyclopedic...
durotaxis (uncountable) (biology) The movement of a cell along a rigidity gradient mechanotaxis...
inflexible. (economics) The insensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity. stiffness rigidity quality of not being elastic...
English Wikipedia has an article on: mechanotaxis Wikipedia mechanotaxis (uncountable) (biology) The movement of a cell along a rigidity gradient durotaxis...