Meaning of FRICTION
| Pronunciation: | | 'frikshun
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- [n] effort expended in rubbing one object against another
- [n] the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another
- [n] a state of conflict between persons
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| | Synonyms: | | clash, detrition, rubbing, rubbing |
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| | See Also: | | abrasion, adhesive friction, attrition, attrition, conflict, detrition, effort, elbow grease, exertion, grinding, grip, resistance, sweat, traction, travail | |
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| | Related Terms: | | abrading, abrasion, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, argument, attrition, backlash, bad blood, belligerence, bickering, caressing, chafing, clash, clashing, collision, competition, conflict, confutation, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, controversy, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, despitefulness, disaccord, disaffinity, disagreement, discord, discordance, discordancy, Discordia, disharmony, dispute, dissension, dissent, enmity, Eris, erosion, feeling, fingering, fractiousness, fretting, fricative, frictional, frottage, grating, handling, hate, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, ill will, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, interference, jangle, jar, kick, malevolence, malice, malignity, manipulation, mischief, negativeness, nonconformity, noncooperation, obstinacy, open conflict, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, palpation, perverseness, petting, pressure, quarrelsomeness, reaction, recalcitrance, recoil, refractoriness, renitency, repercussion, repugnance, resistance, revolt, rivalry, rub, rubbing, scraping, spite, spitefulness, strained relations, strife, stroking, swimming upstream, tension, touching, uncooperativeness, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, vying, wrangling |
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