"rigid body" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: rigid bodies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: rigid body Categories (topical): Physics Derived forms: rigid body dynamics Translations (solid): 剛體 (Chinese Cantonese), 刚体 (gong¹ tai²) (Chinese Cantonese), 剛體 (Chinese Mandarin), 刚体 (gāngtǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), jäykkä kappale (Finnish)

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