skin friction

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noun

the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid

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Words nearby skin friction

skin drag, skin effect, skin flick, skinflint, skin food, skin friction, skin friction drag, skinful, skin game, skin graft, skin grafting

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How to use skin friction in a sentence

Creating PGCs from skin tissue, on the other hand, seems like a walk in the park compared to egg freezing.
Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“I sense that mobile games are starting to shed their skin, getting rid of all the dead things they carry around,” he says.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Everyone showed lots of skin and courtship perfumed the air.
What Downton’s Fashion Really Means|Katie Baker|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Most people, however, understood the significance of the photo immediately-- especially those who share my skin.
What Would Happen if I Got in White Cop’s Face?|Goldie Taylor|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The better she does,” she said, rubbing the skin around the clamps, “the heavier it gets.
Dungeons and Genital Clamps: Inside a Legendary BDSM Chateau|Ian Frisch|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Many of us had been hit by the balls, but a bruise or a graze of the skin was the worst consequence that had ensued.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
A lurid spot on each cheek showed burning red through the bronze of his skin.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
I saw this girl, eight or nine years old, all benumbed and nothing but skin and bone.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
Movement to know that she was attired in appropriate costume—short frock, biped continuations and a mannish oil-skin hat.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley

Scientific definitions for skin friction

skin friction

See under drag.