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What does rigidity mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
  2. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
  3. In Economics: synonym for stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
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The outer windings seem to provide both the extra rigidity needed for motility in structured media and better propulsion in low viscosity media.
The plastic ribbing adds to the rigidity of the structure without a large increase in weight.
Skis have gotten softer over the years, as manufacturers have learned ways of building in torsional rigidity without lengthwise rigidity.
In other cases akinesia, dyskinesia, waxy flexibility, and cogwheeling may occur instead of or in addition to the classic rigidity.
The rigidity and adamancy to continue with the strike action until management appears to capitulate leads to a dead end.
And he was learned and perspicacious enough to see that the rigidity which the old Labour party embraced would entail its own reaction.

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