Usually means: Strictness in maintaining standards, precision.
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  1. rigor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rigor: Merriam-Webster
  3. rigor, rigor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rigor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rigor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rigor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rigor, rigor: Wordnik
  8. rigor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rigor: Wiktionary
  10. rigor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rigor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rigor: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rigor: Dictionary.com
  14. rigor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rigor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rigor (medicine), Rigor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rigor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rigor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rigor: Rhymezone
  20. rigor, rigor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rigor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rigor: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rigor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rigor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

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  1. rigor: Legal dictionary

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  1. rigor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. rigor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rigor: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. rigor: Medical dictionary
  6. Rigor: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Rigor: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
noun:  A surname from Spanish.
noun:  US spelling of rigour [Severity or strictness.]
noun:  (physiology, informal) Short for rigor mortis. [Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death.]

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