stiffness

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Stiffness and extensibility -- how far a material can stretch or expand without breaking -- are linked because they originate from the same building block: the polymer strands connected by crosslinks.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

Stiffness aside, “Boom Boom Pow” was better, as was the relentless “I Gotta Feeling,” which opened and closed the set.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2011

Stiffness and dullness, and the usual country-house talk about horses and guns, golf and fishing, did not prevail there.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur

Shoulders, Stiffness of all those joints, Excruciating pains most of the time.

From Christian Science by Twain, Mark

Stiffness is a variable feature—in some cases amounting to absolute rigidity, so that no ordinary force will elicit movement.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis