| The best content comes from creative friction between program makers and management. |
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| I was still furiously wiping at my eyes with my sleeve, and my skin was raw from the friction. |
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| There has been friction between the two agencies, mainly over jurisdiction. |
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| He also found tension and friction between those two over who was actually in control of the prison. |
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| Some of the scenes of domestic friction between family members are obviously written from recent experience, as they ring resoundingly true. |
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| But there is much friction between the five people on the base and the rescued explorer, who wants all the glory for himself. |
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| The transition generated friction between the school's old and new staffs and hurt those students whose school was being phased out. |
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| He saw the Commonwealth Games as a means to an end, but admits even making it to New Zealand in 1974 caused friction between him and his coach. |
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| Yes, there is friction and competition between the so-called conservatives and the reformists. |
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| I'm back at work, after five days of sitting around with half my head swollen up and the other half covered in friction burns. |
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| The Arcot House is different from most royal houses in the country as there is no friction between the government and this former ruling family. |
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| Cleo was dumped next to him, her hands and feet bound with coarse rope that caused friction burns on her skin. |
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| The wheels extend below the deployed outboard hulls to assist in kedging by reducing friction, suction, and risk of hull damage. |
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| Ponsse notes that this arrangement provides an excellent grip on the tree stem and reduces friction. |
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| Keep the sander moving constantly to prevent heat caused by friction from softening the paint and gumming up the paper. |
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| All too often there can be friction between conventional farmers and organic producers, which is a growing cause of resentment. |
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| As the basal part of the stem was linearly elastic, there was no energy dissipated by viscous friction. |
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| Such extreme cuts along with rises in council tax could cause friction between the council and the government. |
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| Direct trauma or repeated friction over the bursa can lead to inflammation. |
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| People talk about a frictionless commerce, but the information glut has made human inattention the friction in commerce. |
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| Consult the manufacturer's literature for friction losses through valves, regulators, filters, and other components not listed. |
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| For Bernoulli's principle to dominate a dynamic situation, friction must be less dominant. |
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| If the operating temperature is higher than there is greater heat distortion due to thermal expansion hence increased friction. |
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| Its major drawback is that it wears quickly and cannot be used where friction occurs, such as the sash channel of a double-hung window. |
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| Air resistance is a type of frictional force and it is worth considering some general points about friction first. |
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| One other troubling situation she confronted was friction between the cultural groups. |
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| The coefficient of static friction is typically larger than the coefficient of kinetic friction. |
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| Alloys based on tin, cadmium, copper, or silver are used to make bearings which reduce friction between two sliding surfaces. |
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| Immediately behind the working magazine is a spare mag held inside the stock by friction. |
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| If it wasn't for friction between the tyres and the road, driving a car would be like trying to drive on an ice rink. |
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| Flexures provide quasilinear translation without stiction and friction, but flexure-based-translational motion is inherently arcuate. |
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| There's a bit of friction between her and Ray, but she uses the carpet sweeper like a dream. |
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| The menisci are two pads of cartilaginous tissue which serve to disperse friction. |
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| Near the ground the winds are deflected across the contours, or isobars, towards the low pressure, due to friction. |
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| A dendritic creek pattern may develop which is the most efficient in terms of dissipating incoming wave and tidal energy by friction. |
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| A noncontact, no-wear design eliminates hysteresis and friction for reliability and repeatability. |
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| Its low perigee meant that the orbit would degrade rapidly due to atmospheric friction. |
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| He is a puckish, straight-talking young man from Brisbane whose unwillingness to mince his words has resulted in friction with his team managers. |
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| Nylon gears and other moving parts have low coefficients of friction and excellent wear-resistance and impact and tensile strengths. |
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| It appears that this more subtle effect accounts for the low coefficient of friction of icy surfaces. |
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| The coefficient of friction and other aerodynamic aspects in aircraft are more important than simply miles per gallon. |
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| In fact, the thickness of the oil determines its coefficient of friction and defines four distinct regions of lubrication. |
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| No surprise there, given that it's cold outside and everybody needs a little human friction to get by. |
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| Light rail uses up to 80 per cent less energy than buses as it encounters less surface friction. |
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| The move is designed to divide the tribals along religious communal lines and to create friction amongst them. |
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| The descriptive statistics vary with number of samples, and tribometers report average friction values based on different sample sizes. |
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| Minimizing the load carried by half the pistons and connecting rods trims friction and reduces energy losses to the cooling system. |
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| But the lateral motion reduces the rotational friction, so that the spinning persists longer. |
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| Controlling the oil in the crankcase significantly reduces ring tension to unlock even more power by minimizing friction. |
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| Space weather also has an indirect effect on satellites through increased atmospheric drag, or friction. |
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| One moves the paper bail and the other retracts the friction rollers and displaces the paper bail by about 3mm. |
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| That will produce enough side roll to get the ball to hook once it encounters friction. |
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| After free-falling for more than four and a half minutes, he felt himself slowed by the friction of a gradually thickening atmosphere. |
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| Problems with friction and discomfort have forced my prosthetist to remake the socket three times. |
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| The acetylides of silver, copper, mercury, and gold are detonated by heat, friction, or shock. |
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| Theory predicts that these disks accrete onto the holes because of friction. |
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| At every farm, bears could be seen with wounds or scars to the face, head, paws and back because of the friction caused by containment. |
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| Both types of devices allow the caver to control their descent by applying friction to the rope that is threaded through them. |
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| To reduce friction on the spheres, they are levitated by voltages applied to saucer-shaped electrodes. |
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| Then, the engines are powered back and the airplane glides over the top of the arch with just enough power to overcome air friction and drag. |
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| All vital signs were within normal limits, and no precordial murmurs, friction rubs, or thrills were present. |
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| He pointed out that our bipartite collaboration on the worm was exceptional among genome sequencing projects in its success and lack of friction. |
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| Efficiency is the result of many factors, including airflow, combustion, and parasitic losses such as friction and windage. |
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| For two solid pitches of great climbing, you combine laybacking, finger and hand jams, and friction moves to make your way up the corner system. |
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| Without the proper equipment, a worker risks injuries such as abrasions, or friction burns. |
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| When liquid helium is cooled to within a couple of degrees of absolute zero, it flows without any friction or viscosity. |
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| Some massage therapists use oils or lotions to reduce friction while massaging your body. |
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| A large asteroid enters the atmosphere at extremely high speed, glowing red hot as the friction of the air turns it into a fiery cannon ball. |
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| I grabbed a hold of it and started to slide but quickly felt the heat of the metal searing my hands from friction. |
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| To which we can add such other Clausewitzian gems as friction, his two remarkable trinities, and his emphasis on the moral qualities. |
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| This feature prevents the conflagrant friction that is known to produce inflamed areas of the foot. |
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| Bursae prevent excessive friction of soft tissue over bony prominences during motion. |
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| The aluminum bronze coating provides an improvement over prior art coatings in reducing coefficient of friction between the parts. |
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| In spite of the precision and speed of information, fog and friction will continue to bedevil military operations. |
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| To reduce friction and ensure the timely release of the protective guard, however, each component had to be molded from a different material. |
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| However, there will undoubtedly be friction in this process, and some soldiers will fall through the cracks. |
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| To reduce friction the con-rod is axially restrained by the piston instead of the crankpins. |
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| My consequent lack of concern was therefore, a source of some little friction between self and fire-breather. |
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| The sores are caused because of pressure, friction, and rubbing of the saddle against the skin while walking. |
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| Naptha, often recommended, can ignite, just from a spark from friction or rubbing. |
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| Blisters are usually the result of heat injury, such as sunburn, or from repeated friction, such as shoes that rub. |
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| The first layback I actually enjoyed was on a rock with loads of friction, i.e. I didn't have to lean back all that much! |
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| These have included a wide assortment of items, including friction pads, brake linings, gas masks, cement water pipe, insulation, and textiles. |
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| As the Earth's speed of rotation diminishes owing to tidal friction, its angular momentum falls. |
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| This is living proof that under certain circumstances differences in life don't have to create friction. |
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| The guitar had a moulded plastic fretboard and friction pegs, and was of course completely untunable, let alone playable. |
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| The affected areas should be kept as dry and as free of friction as possible. |
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| Bed rollers close to the blade reduced the friction of timbers on the machined cast iron table. |
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| However, considerable friction arose from the beginning between lofty republican ideals and the lure of distant lands. |
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| These effects are lessened somewhat due to reduced form and skin friction drag. |
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| This puts the center of rolling friction drag behind the center of gravity. |
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| Constrained by the tyranny of terrain, ground forces operate in a world of friction and position. |
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| There is a very little friction among cold fronts and as a result winds at lower-levels can become blustery and gusty. |
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| Less friction results in less effort involved in sliding the mouse across the surface. |
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| If you use an electric sander, keep the tool moving on the surface to prevent friction from melting the finish and gumming up the paper. |
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| This force includes the magnetic effects of moving charges and underlies such everyday forces as friction and magnetism. |
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| Painted surface friction points, such as window frames and sills, create paint dust. |
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| The all-mechanical system transfers torque via the friction developed within the internal gearing, and does not require wheel slip to function. |
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| The restoration of the Stanley government in 1660 therefore caused as little friction and alteration as its temporary cessation had. |
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| The hole is right above the bit for virtually dust-free routering, and the connector is a friction fit so it can be removed in an instant. |
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| How fast and in what order remains to be seen, but the direction is a matter of inertia without friction. |
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| So there was some friction there, but as time passed, they then started reporting that these frictions had begun to ease and the people united. |
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| Manifestations include cardiomegaly, heart murmur, friction rub secondary to pericarditis, and congestive heart failure. |
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| Articular cartilage is white, glossy, and smooth tissue without blood vessels or nerves, and it protects the bony understructure from friction. |
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| The researchers think this lessening of friction may occur among the grains in granular flows, such as snow cascading down a mountainside. |
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| Among the advantages of friction welding is the ability to produce high quality welds in a short cycle time. |
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| Thus, applying topical antibiotics and eliminating the friction of a wet diaper may allow the granulation tissue to epithelialize. |
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| This may result in a recommendation to move the location of the friction sleeve further away from the cone tip. |
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| Such mills have large diameter rolls with surfaces that are roughened or ragged to increase the coefficient of friction. |
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| If I slide a brick along the table again and again, the friction is the same each time. |
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| The slides, drums and see-saws in the park have a panel that indicates that energy can be created through friction alone. |
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| This cover protects the batting and decorative fabric because, over time, uncovered foam can create friction holes in these materials. |
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| The high friction then caused the weakened propeller shaft to break and the prop tore away taking the shaft with it. |
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| It also caused some friction in Edinburgh's tight-knit financial community. |
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| Soon friction heat started to melt the prop's magnesium housing as the prop's gear shaft ground away at the housing. |
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| There are five basic terms describing different massage maneuvers, vibration, tapotement, petrissage, effleurage and friction. |
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| The neckline, underarms, sleeve cuffs, and gown back are areas that experience friction and are not considered effective microbial barriers. |
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| For the next half-century, differing interpretations of the treaty caused friction between the two countries. |
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| A ship carrying unknown contents fails to clue the viewer in to the urgency ostensibly causing friction between the characters. |
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| But then I go home and my kitten comes running out mewing and overwhelming my ankles with fuzzy friction until I pick it up. |
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| It should never be forgotten that a steel wheel on a steel rail has one-seventh of the friction of a rubber-tyred wheel on a bitumen surface. |
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| He found that more ion-rich pore fluids caused an increase in angle of friction. |
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| But the friction thus caused was in no way due to Frontenac's dislike of the Sulpicians as an order. |
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| The relaxation to this new equilibrium is slowed down by the combined hydrodynamic friction on the microsphere and the DNA molecule. |
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| Use proper positioning, transferring, and turning techniques to minimize skin injury caused by friction and shear forces. |
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| A double sheet bend may be employed when a sheet bend may not have enough friction to hold well. |
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| Despite the occasional friction between the old timers and the young upstarts, all the dancers come together for the old favourites. |
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| There is a lot of gambling on the tourney, but it's the friendly, friction free kind that even novices can get involved in. |
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| The problem of the tribological behaviour of materials had focussed on either improving friction or prioritising less wear and tear. |
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| Yet, tribologists are still looking for slicker and more durable coatings that will make surfaces as close to friction free as possible. |
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| In the meantime it also appears that there is friction between board directors and shareholders. |
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| He is an amiable person, but very disorganised, and this often leads to frustration on the part of staff, and friction. |
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| The mass of the block, the applied force, and the coefficient of friction can be altered. |
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| As noted, other extrinsic factors for skin injury are shear forces and friction. |
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| Nor is friction a major concern because of the various coatings applied to the ammo. |
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| Rotation reduces linear friction, and lateral motion reduces rotational friction, so that a kind of negative feedback arises. |
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| Corns and calluses result from hyperkeratosis, a normal physiologic response of the skin to chronic excessive pressure or friction. |
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| I thought that friction would figure in to it somewhere, given that soap only lathers when stirred up by whatever means. |
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| They physically scratch off dirt, stains and tarnish via friction as you rub the surface. |
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| I'll just have to make sure I wear extra thick trousers so I don't suffer friction burns as I'm ejected from the car half way round. |
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| After taping his stick, Huselius uses a sharp knife to cut the tape off the bottom edge of the blade to reduce drag and friction on the ice. |
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| That slows the ball down because of the increased friction the ball encounters. |
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| Drag results mostly from friction between the moving wing surface and the air. |
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| Any moving object on Earth experiences a force, called friction, which opposes its motion. |
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| Savazzi expanded this definition of cuticular terraces to include any cuticular structure that would increase friction with the substrate. |
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| It didn't heat up from friction with the skin, and it protected against hard blows and blasts. |
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| The hardened smokers will probably be in company of other smokers most of the time and won't cause any particular friction. |
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| You need to apply a great pressure to finally break the static friction and start the grease moving. |
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| This is because the cue ball can pick up top spin due to friction with the cloth. |
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| The models are simple in that they do not take account of the effects of multiple faulting, of fault friction, or of erosion. |
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| Shooting hard can cause the cue tip leather to loose friction with the cue ball, causing it to jump rather than spin. |
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| The friction between my skin and the service weapon concealed at my waist became more and more unbearable, but I knew I was being targeted. |
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| The breaking of the rope happened because of the friction with the steel plate on the pulley where the rope is fixed. |
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| But as Garfield on television gained in popularity, the Peanuts connection became a source of friction. |
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| As wind passes over the water's surface, friction forces it to ripple. |
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| Lack of aerodynamic friction permits rapid rotation of thin sheets. |
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| The marbles are rounded and have less internal friction to resist shear. |
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| Pain can also limit the individuals ability to recognize new areas of discomfort that may be developing related to pressure, friction, or shear forces. |
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| These are less noticeable than edges demarking stage transitions, but they cause considerable tension, friction, or energy costs to maintain or negotiate. |
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| This was all brought home to me when I saw the speed at which the Tuna pulled the fly line off the reels and the heat that was generated by the friction. |
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| Medical evidence was given to the inquest that death was caused by asphyxia secondary to compression with fractures of the ribs and friction burns. |
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| Initially Mrs Davis, who managed to walk from the bus with more minor friction burns, and her husband were taken to a local cottage hospital in Tonopah. |
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| To top it off, the leading edges of the saddle are covered with little ball-bearing-like nubbins that reduce friction as your legs pump past them. |
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| On closer inspection, he found a friction wound, blackened with scabs, on the back of Patch's neck and a chain tether, with a blue nylon rope, nearby. |
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| With a boat, however, electricity is routed through a gauntlet of adapters and shore power connections that depend on friction to maintain contact. |
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| Your hand reflects the amount of fluids currently in your body, as well as any calluses or wear and tear from the friction of throwing a bowling ball. |
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| The body exerts forces normal to the direction of travel that result in a static friction force against which the rest of the body can be pushed or pulled. |
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| Michael's grumpy, careworn mother, an uprooted representative of the old immigrant Baltimore, lives out her days with them and adds to the friction. |
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| Five basic strokes, effleurage, petrissage, friction, tapotement, and vibration, all flowing toward the heart, are used to manipulate the soft tissues of the body. |
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| The media is going to want a horse race, and it is going to create friction between the base and her record. |
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| Baitcasting reel has a free rotating spool that provides less friction than fixed spool reels thereby offering greater casting distance and accuracy. |
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| The two Wahhabi states do work together albeit with some friction in Syria. |
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| It features a durable base tray for storage of a stage box, an ergonomic carrying handle, and an adjustable friction brake to prevent cable overrun. |
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| It was difficult to reach an agreement because of the friction between the two sides. |
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| It is hardly a secret that one of the main reasons he was shunted out of the cabinet and into the party organisation was the friction that had risen between him and Advani. |
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| To prevent blisters friction should be reduced and the skin kept dry. |
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| What that means is his skin blisters from the slightest friction. |
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| Thirdly, the utter chaos of one daily delivery as the public clamours for an early service, not an afternoon delivery, causes friction and further saps staff morale. |
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| A hydraulically actuated piston applies braking force via pads that operate on the outside and inside faces of each disc, providing four friction surfaces. |
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| Although Scotland's tenement flats are a well-loved part of urban culture, the upkeep of closes, roofs and other common areas can be a source of disastrous friction. |
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| As I said before in the equipment section, you can place a piece of wax paper underneath the slip mat to aid it in its slippiness, the paper creating less friction. |
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| The marks are caused by the speed of the car as well as other factors such as braking force, friction with the road and impacts with other vehicles. |
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| The rash is most commonly found where there is friction with clothes. |
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| In reading this account, we come to realise that the fights and friction between different groups in the hospital setting are universal and ubiquitous. |
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| The cost of an unspellable startup name is serious user adoption friction. |
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| When this happens electrons move an electromotive force such as voltage, and in hitting these atoms, also create heat via friction of the electrons and atoms. |
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| A brake disk for disk brakes, in particular of land vehicles, has a friction ring received by a support section, formed, for example, by a portion of a wheel hub. |
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| The pad spring is carried by the disc brake assembly and is disposed between the anchor bracket and at least one end of one of the pair of friction pads. |
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| The sun was scorching his bare back and his thighs were beginning to ache from the friction of the horse's saddle-free back, but he ignored the discomforts. |
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| Painless swelling of the posterior elbow at the outer tip of the olecranon in a patient complaining of repetitive friction to the elbow indicates olecranon bursitis. |
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| These grooves create microscopic vortices in the water next to the swimmer, thereby disturbing the flow of water along the body and reducing the surface friction drag. |
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| The constant friction with his superiors probably hastened his downfall. |
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| The entrainment of individual grain fractions from sediment mixtures differs from unisize sediment distributions due to variations in relative protrusion and friction angle. |
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| The ratio of the two forces gives us the actual mechanical advantage, but if friction is negligible, the actual mechanical advantage equals the ideal mechanical advantage. |
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| Unlike ideal mechanical advantage, a machine's actual mechanical advantage takes into account the losses that occur because of friction and other phenomena. |
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| Thus, the lipid dynamics depend on the friction and not on hydrodynamics. |
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| Where can I get a list of friction coefficients for different materials? |
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| Triaxial compressive strength tests show that saturation causes, in every metamorphic grade, an increase of angle of internal friction as well as a decrease of cohesion. |
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| There is, naturally, some concomitant friction in the house, and distress. |
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| Sales of land became increasingly provocative of friction as Fijians began to assert claims against each other and then to sell the disputed areas. |
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| Here, he uses the metaphor of the moon to reflect the dark side of all human relations-this time, in a semi-autobiographical take on fraternal friction. |
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| There were reports about friction between you and the mayor. |
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| The issue has been a source of friction between the two sides. |
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| Naturally, there is some friction between the young men, but there are some unspoken truths and tragedies that lead to the family splitting up, for good. |
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| Any increase in surface area will increase skin friction drag. |
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| The drag of a subsonic plane is primarily due to friction with the air, as well as the pressure difference between the front and trailing surfaces. |
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| The fault occupies the farthest reaches of the friction zone between the Pacific and North American plates, an area geophysicists know as the borderlands. |
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| Less friction also reduces the stress imposed on the material. |
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| The tablet, which Fujitsu hopes to release as early as 2015, works by fluctuating the friction between your finger and the screen. |
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| The friction force is about a seventeenth of the ball's weight. |
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| And a coup probably would exacerbate the economic problems that months of friction, violence and impasse have wrought. |
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| Trees were placed in a large revolving drum and debarked by friction. |
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| For instance, heat is generated at the bearings, within the blower's internal drive system, by the drive belt, and even by the friction of the air flowing through the blower. |
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| One year later, barrels were changed to nickel steel to handle the extra friction caused by jacketed bullets at then unheard of muzzle velocities. |
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| It's caused by friction when the nipple rubs against fabric. |
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| Irritant contact dermatitis is a nonallergic reaction that usually results from friction, occlusion, or maceration that may occur while wearing gloves. |
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| But from outward appearances, the tension between Bevin and Paul has also sparked friction between Paul and Benton. |
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| Clausewitz waxes almost poetic on the subject of friction, showering the reader with metaphors for the reality of war, something the reader may well never have experienced. |
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| Properties such as elasticity, viscosity, damping, inertia, friction and contact characteristics and other forces were assigned to discrete rigid-body elements. |
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| The left nosewheel actuating cylinder had cracked through, leaking lubricant until the gearing inside created enough friction to move the casing apart. |
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| This gearing raises the apparent inertia of the motor by the square of the gear ratio, and the high back-drive friction of the gears makes the impedance even higher. |
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| This technology allows reduction or elimination of friction reducing agents such as erucamide. |
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| It would have slid easily across the floor if not for the ruffled undersurface causing friction. |
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| The energy raised the temperature of the snow a couple of degrees, and the friction carved striations high in the icy sides of the canyon walls. |
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| The more Clausewitz poeticizes, the more convinced the reader is that friction is in fact paramount in war, theory nothing. |
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| Consistency is measured in how consistent the friction is during the entire time of braking. |
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| Thorax auscultation revealed bilateral scattered crackles, coarse rhonchi, friction rub on the right lower lung fields and normal heart sounds. |
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| For the first 10 years of Edward III's reign, Gascony had been a major point of friction. |
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| In the poems, surface trivialities glide abrasively against densely crystallized ideas, producing a kinetic friction. |
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| You have several bursae in your body, and their job is to create cushioning between bones and soft tissue to reduce friction. |
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| I got cracked lips, windburn on my face, and obviously there's a lot of friction when you're cycling in the rain. |
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| Nanoscale design of snake skin for reptation locomotions via friction anisotropy. |
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| The line contact was formed by using an Amsler tribometer which had like a friction sliding couple two rings in contact like in fig. |
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| A large scatter of the values of the angle of repose and the angle of material friction against the galvanized sheeting was observed. |
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| Measurement of friction and material flow-stress by a plane-strain compression tribometer. |
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| In this paper, an alternative method to using the pin-on-disk tribometer was used to measure the kinetic friction coefficient of polymers. |
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| The technology eliminates friction losses through the crankshaft, connecting rod and journal bearing of an ordinary reciprocating compressor. |
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| The equation proposed indicates that, acceleration required for initial fluidisation is a sole function of the friction angle of the soil. |
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| In this mode, almost all the energy generated by friction in the disc is swept along with the flow instead of radiated away. |
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| Jacobs' insistence on rigorous scientific methodology caused friction with Senator Harkin. |
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| Hazards to aircraft include debris, nesting birds, and reduced friction levels due to environmental conditions such as ice, snow, or rain. |
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| The friction element starts to affect perfectly plastically when ultimate pile displacement during impact or shift Q is achieved. |
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| The surfaces of friction were analyzed by the methods of optical microscopy and microradiography. |
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| Part of runway maintenance is airfield rubber removal which helps maintain friction levels. |
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| To force the action, Stu opened up with his mouth yelper, and I answered with the glass friction call. |
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| Having lower crystallinity, copolymers tend to have better dimensional stability and win out on lower friction and less wear. |
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| Because of DLC's low coefficient of friction it allows the elimination of bushings so that the piston, for example, can be smaller. |
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| Hence, log-log coefficient of friction, thru-rod tension, thru-rod hole size, and connection type are important. |
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| Both have YKK vent zippers and off-the-shoulder seams for zero friction on your shoulders when wearing a pack. |
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| There are also small, portable devices that can test the floor's coefficient of friction. |
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| The lack of friction, coupled with the fact that screw threads entering the boss are cool, causes the trailing threads to be cooler. |
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| He must resolve lingering cultural friction between traders and Goldman's client-oriented investment bankers. |
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| Multiple options can be specified into the joystick's configuration, such as detents, friction locks, redundant outputs and switch functions. |
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| Dry friction materials, such as non-asbestos organic, semimetallic low-metallic, and asbestos friction materials. |
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| Foge produced a durable friction lining by curing a textile fabric of staple fibers with a resin in two steps. |
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| He divided the main irreversibility into two parts, heat transfer irreversibility and friction irreversibility. |
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| The economic effects were minimal, but they triggered serious political friction. |
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| The incentives offered to them, including special cantonal tax rates on foreign revenue, have been a cause of friction with the European Union. |
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| The friction between the populace and the government over oil and other issues led to some political restructuring in the state. |
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| The exact nature of the relationship between church and state would be a source of continued friction into the next century. |
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| Sweeping a rock makes it curl less, and decreases the friction that slows the rock down. |
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| In addition to the sealing issue, a low-friction magnetizer was used to minimize friction during the run. |
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| Marginal crevasses form from the edge of the glacier, due to the reduction in speed caused by friction of the valley walls. |
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| Like ballasted track the LVT is of the free floating type, held in place by gravity and friction. |
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| In alpine glaciers, friction is also generated at the valley's side walls, which slows the edges relative to the center. |
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| The cartridge bearing offers improved reliability and low friction loss for turbocharger use. |
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| When travelling, jumping can save the dolphin energy as there is less friction while in the air. |
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| At the surface of the object, it is essentially static due to the friction of the surface. |
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| Unfortunately, there is a nugget of truth to the notion of black and Hispanic tensions but, like politics, the friction tends to be very local. |
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| Various medical devices need hydrophilic coatings to reduce friction for maneuvering through blood vessels. |
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| His responsibilities created friction, mainly between Griffiths' wife, Evans, and manager Collins. |
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| The successful Bengali Language Movement in 1952 was the first sign of friction with West Pakistan. |
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| She danced flowingly across the stage, as though gravity and friction didn't apply to her. |
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| Such men are rarely able to satisfy women, partly because the coitive friction is insufficient and partly because their coitive urges are slight. |
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| In 1839, threats by the imperial court of Qing to sanction opium imports caused diplomatic friction with the British Empire. |
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| Full British citizenship was soon returned to the people of Gibraltar having regard to the friction with Spain. |
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| The streamlined body of the fish decreases the amount of friction from the water. |
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| The Series has a low-speed, three-knife open rotor design, with rotating end disks for low-heat granulation and reduced friction wear. |
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| Chemicals are added to the fluid to perform such functions as reducing friction and inhibiting corrosion. |
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| The Argentine, British and Chilean claims all overlap, and have caused friction. |
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| Many activities can, at least to a degree, rub along together without causing too much friction. |
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| Due to surface friction, the inflow only partially conserves angular momentum. |
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| The engine has been manufacturedto belight on weight and low on friction, delivering high performance and fuel economy. |
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| The testing determines both the kinetic and static coefficients of friction for plastic films, sheets and similar materials. |
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| Accusations of illegal overfishing by the French and Spanish fleets is a source of local friction. |
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| Granite is one of the rocks most prized by climbers, for its steepness, soundness, crack systems, and friction. |
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| In particular, the division of planning between districts and counties was a source of friction between the new councils. |
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| Under Wilhelm II, Germany, like other European powers, took an imperialistic course, leading to friction with neighbouring countries. |
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| The results showed that the coefficients of friction increases linearly with the load increase for ABS and its composites. |
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| In the spider monkey, the tip of the tail has either a bare patch or adhesive pad, which provides increased friction. |
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| Vowels are those sounds that have no audible friction caused by the narrowing or obstruction of some part of the upper vocal tract. |
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| Consonants are those sounds that have audible friction or closure at some point within the upper vocal tract. |
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| There was also considerable friction between Antipater and Olympias, and each complained to Alexander about the other. |
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| Because of friction and the rigidity of rocks, they cannot glide or flow past each other easily, and occasionally all movement stops. |
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| The Cossacks tended to act independently of the central government, increasing friction between them two. |
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| The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character, placed in a point of eternal friction with us. |
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| Tri Dharma Wisesa manufactures disc brakes, drum brakes and friction material for drum brakes, and Akebono Corporation Asia Pte. |
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| Wind shear occurs because of friction above a water surface slowing the flow of air. |
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| The rock forms are generally quite rounded, thus often depending on cams for protection, but with good friction. |
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| A wheel uses the law of the lever to reduce the force needed to overcome friction when pulling a load. |
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