stiffness

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Then they threw down some water, and measured the grains’ stiffness.

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the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stiffness gathered in one view.

noun

the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

noun

the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"

noun

firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stiffness.

noun

the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

noun

the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"

noun

firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"

noun

the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

noun

excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

Example sentences

Then they threw down some water, and measured the grains’ stiffness.

Putting an end to muscular stiffness and the pain and loss of function it causes.

This incidentally gives us lower bounds on the speed of sound and stiffness of such a bungee cord.

Bikes, to have sufficient stiffness in the bottom bracket region, space your feet two banana's apart or more.

Strikes me that a certain stiffness of attitude will serve Dr Drepper well in his new job. Perhaps people need to find a place/community that fits their cognitive style?

The primary problems were subtle stiffness here and there and a feeling that the words were being lip-synced at certain moments.

" and "Even though I was ten years younger than the time they say you need to start," She went to the doctor soon after noticing the "funny stiffness," not ten years later.

The point is that stiffness is provided by reducing the degrees of freedom that would cause flopping to those that would require you to "stretch, shrink or tear" the piece of pizza.

Sleeping in a comfortable bed means I wake up far more refreshed and with far less stiffness and muscle pain, than sleeping exactly the same amount of time in an uncomfortable bed.

We have a words like mortician which is a person who cares for the dead, mortgage which is a plan to kill you debt, rigor mortis which is the stiffness of death and mortal which means subject to death.