semirigid

• She held its muscles semirigid, as it seemed to want to do.
• This main cable was semirigid, and really could not be bent into a sufficiently flexible shape to connect directly to the computers. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• This ship was a semirigid and was of a new shape, the envelope resembling in external appearance —  British Airships, Past, Present, and Future
• Near the forward end of the unit, a semirigid plastic tube was connected, leading up to the face mask. —  Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
• G class was a rigid design which has not been proceeded with, and, with this single exception, all are of a semirigid type in which an essentially non-rigid envelope is reinforced by a metal keel. —  British Airships, Past, Present, and Future

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