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Rig may refer to:

  • Rig (band), a musical group of the early 1970s
  • Rig, Afghanistan
  • Rigging, the arrangement of sails on a sailing vessel
  • Rigging/rigged, in computer animation, parts of a 3D model are rigged so that an animator can easily select and move parts of the model (such as an arm or leg) without having to painstakingly select every single vertex in the desired part. The rig also helps the animator with constraints and movement of other attached parts
  • Ríg, in Norse mythology
  • Radio Independents Group (R.I.G. or RIG)
  • RIG, the ticker symbol for Transocean Inc., the largest offshore drilling company in the world
  • In skydiving, a rig is a harness/container or a full parachute system including a harness/container, a main parachute, a reserve parachute, and an automatic activation device
  • A type of horse-drawn carriage in the United States
  • Rig Veda, in Hinduism
  • Oil rig or drilling rig, a structure housing equipment used to drill for materials and/or extract oil from underground oil reservoirs
  • Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, a video game
  • Semiring, in abstract algebra
  • In amateur radio, a generic term for a transmitter, receiver, or transceiver

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