traction
noun
the adhesive friction of a body on some surface, as a wheel on a rail or a tire on a road.
tractions
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pluralof traction.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In addition to Patagonia products, the store will stock DaKine tractions pads and leashes, Ocean Minded sandals, Nixon watches, Smith sunglasses, and a large selection of surfboard fins.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he died in 1915 he left a fortune of over $30,000,000 largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions.
From Time Magazine Archive
She often worked in the front seat of theii Chevrolet, parked away from the dis tractions of home.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stress within the bar is shearing stress, consisting, as it must, of two sets of equal tangential tractions on two sets of planes which are at right angles to each other.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
Oblique tractions can always be resolved, by the vector law, into normal and tangential tractions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
