rigor – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
rigor
n.
severity, strictness; harshness; exactness, strict accuracy; stiffness of muscles causing an inability to react to stimuli (Physiology); sudden feeling of coldness, chill; act of cruelty
Rigour
Rigour (
BrE) or
rigor (
AmE) (see
spelling differences) describes a condition of stiffness or strictness. Rigour frequently refers to a process of adhering absolutely to certain constraints, or the practice of maintaining strict consistency with certain predefined parameters. These constraints may be environmentally imposed, such as "the rigours of famine"; logically imposed, such as mathematical proofs which must maintain consistent answers; or socially imposed, such as the process of defining ethics and law.
rigor
Noun
1. something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
(synonym) asperity, grimness, hardship, rigour, severity, rigorousness
(hypernym) difficulty, difficultness
2. the quality of being logically valid
(synonym) cogency, validity, rigour
(hypernym) credibility, credibleness, believability
3. excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
(synonym) severity, harshness, rigour, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
(hypernym) sternness, strictness
Rigor (der)
nm.
mortis, part of the term "rigor mortis"
rigor
nm.
rigor, hardness, severity, stringency; stiffness of muscles causing an inability to react to stimuli (Physiology)
