Stiff may refer to:
* Stiff, a human
corpse
A cadaver or corpse is a dead human body that is used by medical students, physicians and other scientists to study anatomy, identify disease sites, determine causes of death, and provide tissue to repair a defect in a living human being. Stu ...
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Stiffness
Stiffness is the extent to which an object resists deformation in response to an applied force.
The complementary concept is flexibility or pliability: the more flexible an object is, the less stiff it is.
Calculations
The stiffness, k, of a b ...
, a material's resistance to bending
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''Stiff'' (novel), a novel by Shane Maloney in his Murray Whelan series
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''Stiff'' (film), an Australian TV movie based on the novel
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Stiff (professional wrestling)
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnival
Carnival is a Catholic Christian festive season that occurs before the litur ...
, how a wrestler attacks an opponent
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers'', a book by Mary Roach
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Stiff Records
Stiff Records is a British independent record label formed in London, England, by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera. Originally active from 1976 to 1986, the label was reactivated in 2007.
Established at the outset of the punk rock boom, Stiff ...
, a British record label
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Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF)
Seattle True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) was started in 2005 by a group of filmmakers whose feature film Swamper was rejected by the Seattle International Film Festival. STIFF was modeled after the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City UT as ...
, an annual event
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Jimmy Stiff
Jackyl is an American rock band formed in 1991. Their sound has also been described as heavy metal and southern metal. Their self-titled debut album has sold more than a million copies in the United States with hit singles like "Down on Me" ...
, former member of American rock band Jackyl
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''Stiff'' (album), by White Denim.
See also
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Stiff diagram A Stiff diagram, or Stiff pattern, is a graphical representation of chemical analyses, first developed by H.A. Stiff in 1951. It is widely used by hydrogeologists and geochemists to display the major ion composition of a water sample. A polygonal ...
, in hydrogeology and geochemistry, a way of displaying water chemistry data
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Stiff equation
In mathematics, a stiff equation is a differential equation for which certain numerical methods for solving the equation are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small. It has proven difficult to formulate a precise ...
, an ordinary differential equation that exhibits behaviour at two widely different scales
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