Definition of Rigidities

1. Noun. (plural of rigidity) ¹

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Definition of Rigidities

1. rigidity [n] - See also: rigidity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rigidities

rigid bodies
rigid body
rigid body dynamics
rigid dysarthria
rigider
rigidest
rigidification
rigidifications
rigidified
rigidifies
rigidify
rigidifying
rigidise
rigidised
rigidises
rigidities (current term)
rigidity
rigidity modulus
rigidize
rigidized
rigidizes
rigidly
rigidness
rigidnesses
rigids
rigidulous
rigler sign
riglin
rigling
riglings

Literary usage of Rigidities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1890)
"Principal Flexural rigidities and Principal Planes of Flexure of a Beam. ... These pla.nes are called principal planes of flexure, and the rigidities of the ..."

2. Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light by William Thomson Kelvin (1904)
"On the other hand, formulas (39), (40) show that the supposition of equal rigidities not only does not give evanescent ray for any angle of incidence, ..."

3. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1899)
"119.—Paraplegic gait. Figs. 120 and 121.—Station in spastic paraplegia due to syphilitic myelitis, showing rigidities, ..."

4. Brazil: Volume 2005 Issue 2 by OECD Staff (2005)
"Revenue earmarking and expenditure rigidities Brazil has extensive revenue ... At the same time, there are significant expenditure rigidities at the federal ..."

5. Concrete-steel Construction by Henry Turner Eddy, Claude Allen Porter Turner (1919)
"... later the other problem will be attacked by applying to it the principle of rigidities and law of least work by which the reactions are to be determined ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The positions of the principal planes of flexure, the relative flexural rigidities, and the law of elongation and contraction in different parts of the ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"These places are called principal planes of flexure, and the rigidities of the bar for flexure in these planes are called its principal flexura! rigidities. ..."

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