rigor

Noun

rigor (uncountable)

1. US spelling of rigour.

5 letters in word "rigor": G I O R R.

No anagrams for rigor found in this word list.

Words found within rigor:

gi gio giro girr go gor io oi or rig

• Definitions:
• Severe shaking chill.
• A word with two different but related meanings in medicine: 1. A chill, usually with shivering, as at the onset of high fever and chills. 2. Rigidity, as in rigor mortis, the rigidity of a body after death. The alternate spelling rigour is chiefly British. ...
• Sudden chill with shaking.
• scrupulous or inflexible accuracy or adherence: the logical rigor of mathematics.
• asperity: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" cogency: the quality of being logically valid severity: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
• Rigour or rigor (see spelling differences) has a number of meanings in relation to intellectual life and discourse. These are separate from judicial and political applications with their suggestion of laws enforced to the letter, or political absolutism. ...
• Rigor is a shaking occurring during a high fever. It occurs because cytokines and prostaglandins are released as part of an immune response and increase the set point for body temperature in the hypothalamus.

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• rigolls ←
• rigoll ←
• rigor
• → rigorism
• → rigorisms
• → rigorist