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rig

noun

  1. to set up, manipulate,
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verb

  1. to manipulate or manage in fraudulent or underhand manner
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪɡ/

noun

Etymology: From ring (“algebraic structure”), omitting the letter n to suggest the lack of negatives. Compare rng (“structure like a ring but lacking a multiplicative identity”).

  1. An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.

    The set of natural numbers N with the usual operations of addition and multiplication is a rig, but not a ring. The set of integers Z is a ring. For a rig/ring (R,0,+,1,−), the set of polynomials R[x] on a generator x with the usual operations of addition and multiplication is also a rig/ring.

    2004, Jerzy Marcinkowski (editor), Computer Science Logic: 18th International Workshop, CSL 2004, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 3210, page 17, It follows that for each object A its endomorphisms End_C(A) = C(A,A) has the structure of what is now called a rig, that is to say a (commutative) ring without negatives.

verb

Etymology: Compare wriggle.

  1. To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.

    1616, George Chapman, The Hymn to Hermes, in The Whole Works of Homer (tr.), Rigging and rifling all ways, and no noise / Made with thy soft feet, where it all destroys.