rigor
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rig·or
(rĭg′ər)n.
1.
a. Strictness or severity, as in action or judgment: "The desert fostered a closed world of faith and rigor and harsh judgment: almost every decision here could have lethal consequences" (Jeffrey Tayler).
b. A harsh or trying circumstance; a hardship or difficulty: the rigors of working in a coal mine. See Synonyms at difficulty.
c. Archaic A harsh or severe act.
2.
a. Strictness in adhering to standards or a method; exactitude: "To study the brain with scientific rigor, behaviorists logically restricted their experiments to ones in which the brain was the source of measurable effects" (Robert Pollack).
b. A standard or exacting requirement, as of a field of study: the intellectual rigors of advanced mathematics.
3. Medicine Shivering or trembling, as caused by a chill.
4. Physiology A state of rigidity in living tissues or organs that prevents response to stimuli.
5. Obsolete Stiffness or rigidity.
[Middle English rigour, from Old French, from Latin rigor, from rigēre, to be stiff; see reig- in Indo-European roots.]
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rigor
(ˈraɪɡɔː; ˈrɪɡə)n
1. (Medicine) med a sudden feeling of chilliness, often accompanied by shivering: it sometimes precedes a fever
2. (Pathology) pathol rigidity of a muscle; muscular cramp
3. (Zoology) a state of rigidity assumed by some animals in reaction to sudden shock
4. (Botany) the inertia assumed by some plants in conditions unfavourable to growth
[see rigour]
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rig•or
(ˈrɪg ər)n.
1. the quality of being strict; inflexibility.
2. harshness of judgment or attitude; sternness.
3. hardship of living conditions; austerity: the rigor of wartime existence.
4. a severe or harsh act or circumstance.
5. scrupulous accuracy; precision.
6. severity of weather or climate.
7. a sudden coldness, as that preceding certain fevers; chill.
8. muscular rigidity.
Also, esp. Brit., rig′our. [1350–1400; Middle English rigour < Latin rigor stiffness =rig(ēre) to be stiff + -or -or1]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" sternness - the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable" |
2. | rigor - the quality of being valid and rigorous | |
3. | rigor - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" inclemency, rigorousness, rigourousness, rigour, harshness, severeness, severity, stiffness, hardness sternness, strictness - uncompromising resolution |
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rigor
noun1. The fact or condition of being rigorous and unsparing:
2. Something that obstructs progress and requires great effort to overcome:
Idioms: a hard nut to crack, a hard row to hoe, heavy sledding.
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(American) rigor (ˈrigə) noun1. strictness; harshness. rigor
2. (also ˈrigours noun plural) (of weather etc) the state of being very bad or unpleasant, or the hardship caused by this. the rigour(s) of life in the Arctic Circle.rigor
ˈrigorous adjective1. strict. a rigorous training.riguroso
2. harsh; unpleasant. a rigorous climate.riguroso
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