skin friction drag

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aerodynamic resistance or drag due to the contact of moving air with the surface of an airplane, a glider, etc.

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Creating PGCs from skin tissue, on the other hand, seems like a walk in the park compared to egg freezing.
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“I sense that mobile games are starting to shed their skin, getting rid of all the dead things they carry around,” he says.
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Everyone showed lots of skin and courtship perfumed the air.
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Most people, however, understood the significance of the photo immediately-- especially those who share my skin.
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This breach is an extraordinary emotional drag on the exhausted population.
In One Corner of Syria, Christmas Spirit Somehow Manages to Survive|Peter Schwartzstein|December 25, 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