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Definition of Least resistance
1. Noun. The least effortful way to do something.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Least Resistance
Literary usage of Least resistance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"Hence, the forces acting upon any point without tli«? line of equation, for the
production of the motion of least resistance are uvt the same as those ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"Hence, the forces acting upon any point without the line of equation, for the
production of the motion of least resistance are not, the same as those acting ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Folding in tracts of least resistance.—Now since the shrinkage of the interior
is a slow and essentially simultaneous process, the shearing-stress ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Folding in tracts of least resistance. — Now since the shrinkage of the interior
is a slow and essen' ially simultaneous process, the shearing-stress ..."
5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Folding in tracts of least resistance.— Now since the shrinkage of the interior
L- a <J< >w and essentially simultaneous process, the shearing-stress ..."
6. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... his Visit—Comments and Explanations—Jefferson's Plow of least resistance—Rittenhouse's
Opinion of it on Mathematical Principles—Sir John Sinclair asks a ..."
7. Principles of City Land Values by Richard Melancthon Hurd (1903)
"Cities originate at point of contact with outer world, and grow in line of least
resistance or greatest attraction or their resultant—Central or axial ..."
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