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  • 1rigid — adjective 1 rigid methods, systems etc are very strict and difficult to change: Betty s finding it hard to keep to the school s rigid rules. | the rigid discipline of army life 2 someone who is rigid is very unwilling to change their ideas: He s… …

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  • 2rigid — [[t]rɪ̱ʤɪd[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) Laws, rules, or systems that are rigid cannot be changed or varied, and are therefore considered to be rather severe. Several colleges in our study have rigid rules about student conduct... Hospital… …

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  • 3rigid — 01. The rules regarding attendance and homework are very [rigid] in that institution. 02. She went to a Catholic school where they had [rigid] regulations against dating. 03. The social rules prohibiting marriage between different classes are… …

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  • 4Rigid VI — Rigid the Sixth was a devoted husband and father, and was also very fond of animals, in marked contrast to his predecessors who had spent most of their spare time shooting arrows into the wild boars who roamed the palace corridors. Rigid was also …

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  • 5Very large floating structure — Very large floating structure(s) (VLFS(s)) (or, as some literature refers to them, very large floating platform(s) , VLFP(s) for short) can be constructed to create floating airports, bridges, breakwaters, piers and docks, storage facilities (for …

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  • 6rigid — ri|gid [ˈrıdʒıd] adj [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: rigidus, from rigere to be stiff ] 1.) rigid methods, systems etc are very strict and difficult to change ≠ ↑flexible ▪ rigid and authoritarian methods of education 2.) someone who behaves… …

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  • 7Rigid-hulled inflatable boat — A rigid inflatable boat (RIB) or rigid hulled inflatable boat, (RHIB) is a light weight but high performance and high capacity boat constructed with a solid, shaped hull and flexible tubes at the gunwale. The design is stable and seaworthy. The… …

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  • 8rigid — adj. 1 not able/willing to change VERBS ▪ appear, be, seem ▪ become, grow ▪ He grew even more rigid and uncompromising as he got older. ADVERB …

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  • 9Rigid needle adapter — The concept of the Rigid Needle Adapter makes possible a contacting of finest structures on printed and assembled circuit carriers and also direct contacting in fine pole connectors. For this concept one need every time a raster head and a rigid… …

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  • 10Rigid analytic space — In mathematics, a rigid analytic space is an analogue of a complex analytic space over a nonarchimedean field. They were introduced by John Tate in 1962, as an outgrowth of his work on uniformizing p adic elliptic curves with bad reduction using… …

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