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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Traction, as of street-railway cars, upon the surface of the ground: distinguished from
underground traction. - noun In mathematics, the resultant, for any part of a surface bounding a portion of a body, of the stresses exerted on that portion by other portions of the body, or by portions of other bodies, in contact with it over the part of the surface.
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First they invested in a holding firm (National City Lines, Inc.) that bought up more than 100 electric surface-traction systems in cities such as Los Angeles, Tulsa, Jackson, and Detroit.
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