Stiff may refer to:
* Stiff, a human
corpse
A cadaver, often known as a corpse, is a dead human body. Cadavers are 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 li ...
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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 ...
, a material's resistance to bending
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Joint stiffness
Joint stiffness may be either the symptom of pain on moving a joint, the symptom of loss of range of motion or the physical sign of reduced range of motion.
* Pain on movement is commonly caused by osteoarthritis, often in quite minor degrees, ...
, pain and/or reduced range of motion of body parts in humans and animals
Arts and music
* Jimmy Stiff, former member of American rock band
Jackyl
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Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF), an annual event 2005–2019
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''Stiff'' (album), a 2016 album by White Denim
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''Stiff'' (novel), a 1994 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 Traveling carnival, carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such term ...
, how a wrestler attacks an opponent
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"Stiff" (''Gimme Gimme Gimme''), a 2000 television episode
* ''
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers'', a 2003 nonfiction book by Mary Roach
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Stiff Records
Stiff Records is a British independent record label formed in London by Dave Robinson (music executive), Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera. Originally active from 1976 to 1986, the label was reactivated in 2007.
Established at the outset of the p ...
, a British record label
See also
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Stiff diagram, 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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