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Definition of Nonrigid
1. Adjective. Designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure.
Definition of Nonrigid
1. Adjective. not rigid; flexible ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of an airship) That maintains its shape only by internal gas pressure ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonrigid
1. not rigid [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonrigid
Literary usage of Nonrigid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1911)
"The Parseval machine, which is typical of the nonrigid type. employs a ...
In the semirigid and nonrigid types bags are placed inside of time gas bags into ..."
2. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"THE CONSTRUCTION OF A nonrigid NAVAL DIRIGIBLE FOR COAST PATROL This ...
The airship shall consist of a nonrigid envelope made of rubberized fabric and ..."
3. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"The keel alone of the semirigid, however, calls for several freight cars, while
the Parseval, a nonrigid dirigible, eg, can be completely loaded on two. ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The Structure of One of the Isomeric C8H,Ru2(CO)6 Molecules in the Crystalline
Compound FA Cotton and WT Edwards 5412 Stereochemically nonrigid ..."
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