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nonrigid

[non-rij-id]
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adjective
  1. not rigid.
  2. designating a type of airship having a flexible gas container without a supporting structure and held in shape only by the pressure of the gas within.
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Origin of nonrigid

First recorded in 1905–10; non- + rigid
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British Dictionary definitions for nonrigid

nonrigid

adjective
  1. not rigid; flexible
  2. (of the gas envelope of an airship) flexible and held in shape only by the internal gas pressure
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