Detective Fermin Archer died from injuries received in a vehicle accident while on duty. Today, we add six members of the world's greatest police department to the Wall of Heroes, said Mayor Bloomberg.
tautness Noun 1 the physical condition of being stretched or strained; it places great tension on the leg muscles; he could feel the tenseness of her body [syn: tension, tensity, tenseness]
Rigid or rigidity may refer to: Mathematics and physics. Stiffness, the property of a solid body to resist deformation, which is sometimes referred to as rigidity; Structural rigidity, a mathematical theory of the stiffness of ensembles of rigid objects connected by hinges