rigid frame

noun

1. (in iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction) a bent having absolutely rigid connections at the knees.

Other Words From

• rigid-frame adjective

Example Sentences

A very easy way to construct a rigid frame is shown in the illustration.

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If the monster ship, of rigid frame, were indeed the ideal form of dirigible it would be imitated on every hand.

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In determining upon a rigid frame the Count was not a pioneer even in his own country.

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She strove to warm his cold hands, to breathe new life into his rigid frame.

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With the Symbolists 'free verse' was an attempt to capture finer modulations of music than the rigid frame of metre allowed.

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