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NONRIGID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nonrigid mean?
• NONRIGID (adjective)
The adjective NONRIGID has 1 sense:
1. designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure
Familiarity information: NONRIGID used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure
Domain category:
aeronautics; astronautics (the theory and practice of navigation through air or space)
Antonym:
rigid (designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure)
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