Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word RIGOR

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Definitions of RIGOR

1. Alternative spelling of rigour.
2. (medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
3. (physiology, informal) Short for rigor mortis.
4. A Spanish surname from Spanish.

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Examples of Using RIGOR in a Sentence

• Geometry was revolutionized by Euclid, who introduced mathematical rigor and the axiomatic method still in use today.
• It is a speculative, non-rigorous argument that relies on analogy or intuition, and that allows one to achieve a result or an approximation that is to be checked later with more rigor.
• The music took a more hardcore, aggressively guitar-driven direction, with Jourgensen inspired by Stormtroopers of Death and Rigor Mortis to add thrash metal guitars to the album and subsequent Ministry releases.
• Putrefaction is the fifth stage of death, following pallor mortis, livor mortis, algor mortis, and rigor mortis.
• The second approach attempts to clarify neuroscientific results using the conceptual rigor and methods of philosophy of science.
• This ideal was pursued by Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Bernard Bolzano, Karl Weierstrass, among others, who considered that Isaac Newton's calculus lacked rigor.
• St Leger argued that the loyalty of the Anglo-Irish nobility could be better achieved "by small gifts and honest persuasion than by rigor", which seems to be an implicit criticism of the savage manner in which the Rebellion of Silken Thomas had been suppressed.
• He immediately turned his focus towards applying philosophy to mathematics (his critics believed that this meant dispensing with mathematical rigor in favor of generalities).
• Nunn envisioned an unorthodox form of education that combined academic rigor, manual labor, and self-governance.
• Scruffy AI researchers in the 1990s applied mathematical rigor to their programs, as neat experts did.
• The program exposes students to college-level rigor, while also allowing students to enter university courses before high school completion bypassing the need for remedial classes upon beginning postsecondary education.
• «The word "paleolibertarian" was mine too, and the purpose was to recapture the political edge and intellectual rigor and radicalism of the pre-war libertarian right.
• This results in the photorealist style being tight and precise, often with an emphasis on imagery that requires a high level of technical prowess and virtuosity to simulate, such as reflections in specular surfaces and the geometric rigor of man-made environs.
• Anecdotal evidence can be true or false but is not usually subjected to the methodology of scholarly method, the scientific method, or the rules of legal, historical, academic, or intellectual rigor, meaning that there are little or no safeguards against fabrication or inaccuracy.
• As a full rigorous presentation is not appropriate for this article, we take an approach that avoids much of the rigor and satisfaction of a formal treatment with the aim of being more comprehensible to a non-specialist.
• Frog muscles do not resolve rigor mortis as quickly as muscles from warm-blooded animals (chicken, for example) do, so heat from cooking can cause fresh frog legs to twitch.
• Toth said the commission received letters from CCI for 11 of the 12 educators, stating that their Saint Regis degrees met the same rigor and content standards as do those from regionally accredited U.
• That said, a 2019 task force by ASA has issued a statement on statistical significance and replicability, concluding with: "p-values and significance tests, when properly applied and interpreted, increase the rigor of the conclusions drawn from data".
• The Supreme Court has formulated a balancing test to determine the rigor with which the requirements of procedural due process should be applied to a particular deprivation, for the obvious reason that mandating such requirements in the most expansive way for even the most minor deprivations would bring the machinery of government to a halt.
• Rigour (British English) or rigor (American English; see spelling differences) describes a condition of stiffness or strictness.

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