Sekirov Dictionary

rigid

/ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/

adjective 5
noun 2
forms 5

adjective5

Stiff, rather than flexible.
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Fixed, rather than moving.
- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys. — 2011
Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
Rigorous and unbending.
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Uncompromising.
- Despite arguments to the contrary, she remained rigid in her stand.

noun2

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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.
- The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.
A bicycle with no suspension system.

forms

rigids · more rigid · rigider · most rigid · rigidest

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