Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
- n. Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
- n. Physics A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The rubbing of the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; frication.
- n. In mech., the resistance to the relative motion, sliding or rolling, of surfaces of bodies in contact: called in the former case sliding, in the latter rolling friction. It is partly due to the adhesion of bodies, but the greater part of it is the result of their roughness. The friction proper is independent of the velocity and of the area of contact; it depends solely upon the nature of the two surfaces and upon the pressure upon them, to which it is directly proportional. What is sometimes called the internal friction of fluids is vi scosity (which see). The friction of a fluid upon a solid is considerable; it is now recognized as an important factor in the designing of ships.
- n. Figuratively, lack of harmony; mutual irritation; worrying; difficulty.
Wiktionary
- n. The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
- n. Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
- n. physics : A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.
- n. (Mech.) The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.
- n. A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress.
WordNet 3.0
- n. effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure
- n. the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another
- n. a state of conflict between persons
Etymologies
- From Middle French friction and directly from Latin frictionem, nom. frictio ("a rubbing, rubbing down") (Wiktionary)
- Latin frictiō, frictiōn-, from frictus, past participle of fricāre, to rub. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And the sole beneficiary of this friction is a load of useless middlemen who extract their money long before it ever gets to the actual creators.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog
“Von Clauswitz's "friction" is the accumulation of little things going wrong so that nothing in war turns out as expected, and no situation is as stark or simple as it might appear just looking at the maps and the numbers.”
zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
“But already, the possibility for friction is emerging.”
The Huffington Post: Michele Bachmann Making Play For GOP Leadership Post
“INSKEEP: What kind of frustration or friction is there between some of these different groups of African-Americans you described - those who are becoming more successful and those who are being left behind?”
“The friction is likely to get rougher if many major economies remain anemic, as projected.”
“That aside, the example of friction is a good one.”
“The friction is coming from within your own party.”
“Well, it doesn't fall off much because the only things slowing it down are inertia and skin friction drag which is pretty low, and with the M80 ball bullet it has been measured about 90 percent of the original rpm (or in this case about 178,00 rpm) depending on the bullet.”
“All of that friction is removed with on-demand provisioning and getting past the internal IT ownership egos and fiefdoms.”
“May 22, 2009 at 4: 48 AM friction is the number one reason why clothes wrinkle ...”
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