Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brake acting by friction on some part, as of a moving vehicle.
- noun A form of dynamometer invented by Prony.
- noun An apparatus for testing the lubricating properties of oils.
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Examples
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Owing to the enormous size of the sun, the efficiency of these tides and the moment of the friction-brake they produce will be far greater on the planet than will the converse operation of the planet be on the sun.
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They cooled without dividing, because the solar friction-brake applied to them was too strong to permit acceleration to pass the limit of equilibrium.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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It is obvious to anyone who considers the subject a little attentively, that the tides must act to some extent as a friction-brake upon the rotating earth.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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(varying from one and three-quarters to one and a half inches in circumference and weighing roughly a ton to the thousand fathoms in air); this was kept on a large iron reel (A) mounted on standards and controlled by a friction-brake.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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