The resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another

Usage examples of friction.

He kept them all very busy with visual observations, spectra and bolometer readings becoming very excited at the rise in surface temperature detectable over the next few hours, caused, most probably, by the scouring friction of those million-mile winds.

In the case of friction between two solid bodies, this may go so far that particles of matter are completely detached from the cohesive whole.

That car will accelerate according to the thrust obtained from the Sixth Force, which does not depend upon friction for any part of its action.

There was also some friction over the disposal of six Dutch prizes which Doyley had picked up for illegal trading at Barbadoes on his way out from England.

Bunches of nests -surrounded by mirrors, trailed with friction tubes like jungle creepers - clustered near the long axis, and dirigiblisters floated like strange, semi-transparent clouds beneath them.

I have been assured, but can scarcely believe it, that he cured a consumptive patient of a secret disease by means of the milk of an ass, which he had submitted to thirty strong frictions of mercury by four sturdy porters.

Wes Hamer are supposedly best friends, I sense a friction between them.

I said, pulling out a vicious pair of knucks constructed from little steel cubes mounted on an iron bar, and wound with friction tape.

However, this is the way Mirabelle walks all the time, even on the sure friction of a concrete sidewalk.

Nosoki told me that he relies mainly on the application of the moxa and on acupuncture in the treatment of acute diseases, and in chronic maladies on friction, medicinal baths, certain animal and vegetable medicines, and certain kinds of food.

They were in radio blackout, twelve long minutes of silence when the friction of reentry ionizes the air around the orbiter, cutting off all communications.

Again he draws out, and again enters, till the friction caused by the luscious tightness of the rich flesh which clasps tightly his foaming pego causes such delicious sensations that he is no longer master of himself.

It was true she had phlebitis, but the migraine, hiatus hernia and stomach trouble seemed to be born separately or altogether on different bouts of friction.

It took Lovett a while to explain to Pilau that sometimes, a little friction can be a very good thing.

So, at the tacholine, there is friction: the convective material moves over the radiative like a tremendous wind.