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Rigorous vs Rigorization - What's the difference?

rigorous | rigorization |

As an adjective rigorous

is manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigour; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.

As a noun rigorization is

conversion into a mathematically rigorous form.

rigorous

English

Alternative forms

* rigourous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigour; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
  • Violent.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * capricious

    rigorization

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rigorisation (rare) * rigourisation (rare) * rigourization (rare)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Conversion into a mathematically rigorous form.