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

As I saw it expressed in one of the papers "Stiffness and depression vanished from any company when she took the platform."

From My War Experiences in Two Continents by Salmon, Betty Keays-Young

Stiffness, General.—This is often an adjunct of old age, and sometimes occurs in the young and middle-aged as the result of chills.

From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce

The Head should be upright and free without Stiffness or Affectation, the Face turned between full and profile, and not altogether full, as many Masters will have it, that being a constrained and disagreeable Figure.

From The Art of Fencing The Use of the Small Sword by Mahon, Andrew