rigid body
Physics
noun
An object which undergoes no deformation; specifically one used as an idealized approximation of a real object, in which any two points are treated as remaining at a constant distance regardless of external forces acting upon it.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Walter Charleton (1620–1707), physician and natural philosopher.
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- plesiadapid
- plesiadapiform
- plesiadapoid
- Plesianthropus
- plesiaster
- plesiochronous
- plesiochronous digital hierarchy
- plesiomorphic
- plesiomorphous
- plesiomorphy
- plesiosaur
- plesiosaurian
- plesiosauroid
- Plesiosaurus
- plessimeter
- plessite
- plessor
- plet
- plethodontid
- plethora
- plethoric
- plethorical
- plethorically
- plethory