rigor
nounUK /ˈɹɪɡə/ · CA, US /ˈɹɪɡɚ/
Etymology From Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”).
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US US spelling of rigour.
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Medicine, Physiology, Sciences Abbreviation, Ellipsis, Informal Ellipsis of rigor mortis.
- Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3:
- Derived terms
- break rigor, rigor caloris, rigored, rigorisation, rigorise, rigorism, rigoristic, rigorization, rigorize, rigorous