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RIGIDIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rigidification mean? 

RIGIDIFICATION (noun)
  The noun RIGIDIFICATION has 1 sense:

1. the process of becoming stiff or rigidplay

  Familiarity information: RIGIDIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RIGIDIFICATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of becoming stiff or rigid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

rigidification; rigidifying; stiffening

Hypernyms ("rigidification" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rigidification"):

rigor mortis (muscular stiffening that begins 2 to 4 hours after death and lasts for about 4 days)

Derivation:

rigidify (become rigid)


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