Usually means: Resistance to deformation under load.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. stiffness: Merriam-Webster
  2. stiffness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stiffness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stiffness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Stiffness, stiffness: Wordnik
  6. stiffness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. stiffness: Wiktionary
  8. stiffness: Dictionary.com
  9. stiffness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Stiffness (mathematics), Stiffness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Stiffness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. stiffness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. stiffness: Rhymezone
  14. Stiffness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. stiffness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. stiffness: FreeDictionary.org
  17. stiffness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. stiffness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. stiffness: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stiffness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stiffness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Stiffness: Merck Manuals
  3. stiffness: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stiffness: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  5. Paper Making (No longer online)

(Note: See stiff as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stiffness)

noun:  Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
noun:  Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
noun:  Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
noun:  Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.

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