rigor

noun
/ˈɹɪɡɚ/CA

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”).

  1. derived from rigor

Definitions

  1. US spelling of rigour.

  2. Ellipsis of rigor mortis.

    • Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.
  3. A surname from Spanish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rigor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rigor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at rigor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA