Get to know Rigidity better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like rigidness or inelasticity.
Rigidity in a sentence
Rigidity meaning
- The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape.
- The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
- Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
Synonyms of Rigidity
Using Rigidity
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape. | The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form. | Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
- Useful related words include: rigidness, inelasticity, inflexibility, unadaptability.
- In the example corpus, rigidity often appears in combinations such as: rigidity of, the rigidity, rigidity and.
Context around Rigidity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rigidity
- In this selection, "rigidity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ideological, muscle, sufficient, catastrophe, giddy and compared stand out and add context to how "rigidity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include based on rigidity catastrophe caused and causes muscle rigidity and severe. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rigidity" sits close to words such as ahs, airtime and ambience, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rigidity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Perspective: Cognitive rigidity is not an American tradition. (8 words)
A state of unresponsiveness or unusual physical rigidity. (8 words)
Men also had their penis measured for rigidity at the same time. (12 words)
Greenberg & Jonas: left–right, ideological rigidity In a 2003 Psychological Bulletin paper, citation Jeff Greenberg and Eva Jonas posit a model comprising the standard left–right axis and an axis representing ideological rigidity. (33 words)
SPS is characterised by fluctuating muscle rigidity in the trunk and limbs and a heightened sensitivity to stimuli such as noise, touch, and emotional distress, which can set off muscle spasms. (31 words)
The Born criterion is based on rigidity catastrophe caused by the vanishing elastic shear modulus, e.g. when the crystal no longer has sufficient rigidity to mechanically withstand load. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Greenberg & Jonas: left–right, ideological rigidity In a 2003 Psychological Bulletin paper, citation Jeff Greenberg and Eva Jonas posit a model comprising the standard left–right axis and an axis representing ideological rigidity.
The Born criterion is based on rigidity catastrophe caused by the vanishing elastic shear modulus, e.g. when the crystal no longer has sufficient rigidity to mechanically withstand load.
Men also had their penis measured for rigidity at the same time.
Perspective: Cognitive rigidity is not an American tradition.
SPS is characterised by fluctuating muscle rigidity in the trunk and limbs and a heightened sensitivity to stimuli such as noise, touch, and emotional distress, which can set off muscle spasms.
The number of first-time lawmakers could be a momentary shock to the system due to ideological rigidity, giddy naiveté and a general lack of understanding of the processes.
The rigidity of its panels takes a hit, though, and some of you will really want an above-Full-HD screen when spending a grand.
Thus, the battery itself serves as the basis and contributes to the rigidity of the mount.
With the use of high-strength steel, blanking, and laser welds, the new Land Cruiser offers superior rigidity compared to its predecessor, the 200 Series.
A state of unresponsiveness or unusual physical rigidity.
The documentary offers an unfiltered look at the 56-year-old’s private struggles with the condition, which causes muscle rigidity and severe spasms, affecting her ability to perform.
This is the type of situation in which bamboo can teach us about firmness and flexibility, the ability to bend and not break due to rigidity.
To achieve this, Honda's engineers used bonded aluminum in the body shell, which also increased the body rigidity.
Yet the orthodox movement can also seem like a tangle of forgiveness and rigidity, where insistence on mercy and kindness mingle with warnings of eternity in hell.
As the disease progresses, people are likely to experience unpredictable stiffness, rigidity, and tremors, referred to as OFF time.
But waterfall’s rigidity became an Achilles heel in the internet era, where speed and flexibility were required.
Despite the rigidity of the process, Morrison isn’t worried about massive quantities of votes being disqualified.
He began to see, he said, how Britain’s “static rigidity of pomp, ceremony and class” had been transplanted onto plantation society in Jamaica.
It was an undertaking "that previously I might not have imagined they'd be open to," said Nardone, who publicly criticized Google's rigidity last year.
Plus, the die-cast metal chassis with polycarbonate shell gives your phone rigidity combined with the comfortable feel you’d expect from a Nokia phone.
Common combinations with rigidity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- rigidity of 22×
- the rigidity 17×
- rigidity and 15×
- rigidity to 7×
- and rigidity 7×
- ideological rigidity 5×
- rigidity in 5×
- structural rigidity 4×
- muscle rigidity 3×
- rigidity that 3×