Usually means: Resistance to motion between surfaces.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. friction: Merriam-Webster
  2. friction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. friction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. friction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Friction, friction: Wordnik
  6. friction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. friction: Wiktionary
  8. friction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. friction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. friction: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. friction: Dictionary.com
  12. friction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. friction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Friction (Coney Hatch album), Friction (English musician), Friction (Ghanaian musician), Friction (Phideaux Xavier album), Friction (band), Friction (comics), Friction (disambiguation), Friction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. friction: Rhymezone
  16. friction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. friction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. friction: FreeDictionary.org
  19. friction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. friction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. friction: Vocabulary.com
  22. friction: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. friction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. friction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. friction: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Friction: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. friction: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. friction: Urban Dictionary

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Friction: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. FRICTION: Glossary on Terminology related to Nuts and Bolts
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  7. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  8. friction: Coin Collecting
  9. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  10. FRICTION: Power Engineering

(Note: See frictionless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
noun:  (physics) A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
noun:  (medicine, obsolete, countable) Massage of the body to restore circulation.
noun:  (figuratively) Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
noun:  (China, historical) (Second Sino-Japanese War) Conflict, as between the Communists and non-Hanjian Kuomintang forces.

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