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 or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Stiffness may be its impossible defect; but it is certainly its only possible merit.

From All Things Considered by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Stiffness wearing off, and so on and so on until finally Miss De Boodle's portrait is printed in nineteen Sunday newspapers all over the country.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney