kinetic friction

1. See under friction

Example Sentences

Matisse eventually fused the kinetic friction between them in a series of increasingly large, finally monumental collages made by cutting colored paper.

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The usual stuff of such shows — arguments among team members; a race against the clock — is served up, though here the disagreements are peppered with phrases out of a physics class about kinetic friction, static friction and so on.

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Coulomb pointed out long ago that the resistance of a body to be set in motion was in many cases much greater than the resistance which it offered to continued motion; and since his time writers have always distinguished the “friction of rest,” or static friction, from the “friction of motion,” or kinetic friction.

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These experiments distinctly point to the conclusion, although without absolutely proving it, that in such cases the coefficient of kinetic friction gradually increases as the velocity becomes extremely small, and passes without discontinuity into that of static friction.

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The friction of rest or quiescence, "statical friction," is greater than that of motion, or "kinetic friction."

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