Stiff
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Stiff may refer to:
- Stiffness, a material's resistance to bending
- Stiff differential equation, an equation that exhibits behaviour at two widely different scales (the differential equations describing stiff materials are stiff differential equations)
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, a book about corpses by Mary Roach
- Stiff, the first novel by Shane Maloney in his Murray Whelan series.
- Stiff, an Australian TV movie based on the Maloney novel, starring David Wenham as Murray Whelan
- Stiff pattern or Stiff diagram, a method of plotting anion and cation concentrations in meq/L [1]
- Stiff Records, a British record label
- Stiff also has two uses in professional wrestling:
- Stiff, used to describe how hard a wrestler is attacking his/her opponent
- A term used when a promoter does not pay his/her wrestlers (similar to slang regarding tipping)
- A stiff drink can be a drink with a high percentage of alcohol.