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Definition of Frictional
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or worked or produced by friction. "Frictional gearing"
Definition of Frictional
1. a. Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity.
Definition of Frictional
1. Adjective. Relating to, or caused by, friction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frictional
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Frictional
1. Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity. Frictional gearing, wheels which transmit motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase or decrease friction, as required. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frictional
Literary usage of Frictional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Researches in Experimental Phonetics: The Study of Speech Curves by Edward Wheeler Scripture (1906)
"The curve traced in such a way may be called a "frictional sinusoid"; ...
Curve compounded of frictional sinusoids. The vibrations of the voice in speech ..."
2. Principles of Thermodynamics by George Alfred Goodenough (1920)
"Frictional Resistance.—In the flow of a fluid along a channel certain frictional
resistances are encountered. When the motion is turbulent there is internal ..."
3. Text-book of Mechanics by jr Louis Adolphe Martin (1914)
"Fortunately on long pipe lines the frictional resistances are so much larger ...
SECTION XIX FLUID FRICTION The Frictional Force Exerted by Liquids upon ..."
4. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1877)
"The amount of the frictional tenacity at any horizontal joint is the product of
the vertical load upon the portion of that joint where two blocks of stone ..."
5. Light and Electricity: Notes of Two Courses of Lectures Before the Royal by John Tyndall, Royal Institution of Great Britain (1903)
"Relation of Voltaic to Frictional Electricity. 108. ... But measured by other
standards the frictional current is almost incomparably more feeble than the ..."
6. Electricity and Magnetism for Engineers by Harold Pender (1918)
"Frictional and Elastic Forces,—It is a matter of experience that work is always
required to move one portion of matter relative to another with which it is ..."
7. Foundations of Bridges and Buildings by Roland Parker Davis, Henry Sylvester Jacoby (1914)
"Frictional RESISTANCE Estimating the probable frictional resistance to be met
with in sinking caissons is one of the most difficult features involved in the ..."
8. Elements of Hydraulics by Stephen Elmer Slocum (1915)
"Usually, however, there is considerable frictional resistance to be overcome,
... To take into account the frictional resistance in this case, ..."
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