Tent, portable shelter, consisting of a rigid framework covered by some flexible substance.
If the judges on "American Idol," whose third season is under way, have established a rigid framework for thinking about pop music success, Ms. Banks and her colleagues are on their way to providing a handbook to pop beauty, complete with its own lexicon.
This power structure encloses all relations between citizens and police within a rigid framework, characterised by distance and defiance.
The earliest upholsterers, from early Egyptian times to the beginning of the Renaissance, nailed animal skins or dressed leather across a rigid framework.
Intuitively, a rigid framework cannot flex.
Consider a rigid framework (G, p) in ℝ2.
Like Bigley and Roberts (2001) show for the U.S. Incident Command System, the FwD100 is not a rigid framework.
Thus, the practice of using FSA allows a fairly free form approach while also providing a rigid framework.
Although 1969 was also the year of Woodstock and growing domestic unrest, Pearl's family dynamics reflect a sensibility and a rigid framework that seems more in keeping with 1960.
The cell walls provide a rigid framework and protection for bacterial cells [36], [39].
