rigid body

English

Noun

rigid body (plural rigid bodies)

1. (physics) An idealized solid whose size and shape are fixed and remain unaltered when forces are applied; used in Newtonian mechanics to model real objects.

Derived terms

• rigid body dynamics

Translations

solid

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 剛體／刚体 (gong¹ tai²)

  Mandarin: 剛體／刚体 (zh) (gāngtǐ)

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• Finnish: jäykkä kappale
• Hindi: दृढ़ पिंड m (dŕṛh piṇḍ)