nonrigid

non·rig·id

 (nŏn-rĭj′ĭd)
adj.
1. Not rigid: a nonrigid frame.
2. Of, relating to, or being a lighter-than-air aircraft that holds its shape by gas pressure.
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nonrigid

(nɒnˈrɪdʒɪd)
adj
1. not rigid; flexible
2. (Aeronautics) (of the gas envelope of an airship) flexible and held in shape only by the internal gas pressure
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non•rig•id

(nɒnˈrɪdʒ ɪd)

adj.
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.
[1905–10]
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Adj.1.nonrigid - designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure
aeronautics, astronautics - the theory and practice of navigation through air or space
rigid - designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
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and Buffet, B.A.: 2002, Modeling of nutation-precession for nonrigid Earth, and insights into the Earth's interior.
If the deceased is being buried in a shroud or nonrigid container, consider placing the body on a wooden board to distribute the weight more evenly.
(1992) developed a nonrigid silicone model of the aorta to understand fluid-structure interaction (FSI) and the impact of wall compliance on the flow patterns generated in the aortic arch [3].
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Although many tracking algorithms are proposed in recent decades [1], designing a robust tracking algorithm remains a challenging issue due to factors such as fast motion, out-of-rotation, nonrigid deformation, and background clutters.
For example, Ascione and Polini gave a solution to the problem of nonrigid freeform inspection by a coordinate measuring machine [7].
* if the beam is considered to be a nonrigid link, the main feedback sensor does not provide reliable information about the adjustable coordinate under perturbations with large accelerations and with a considerable mass of the beam (platform);
First, following a preprocessing step to normalize the input images, a nonrigid registration step between magnetic resonance images (MRI) and PET images is applied, followed by a nonrigid transformation to the MNI152-space which was annotated by the automated anatomical labelling (AAL) brain atlas.
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