Explore Frictional through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like resistance. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Frictional in a sentence
Frictional meaning
- Relating to, or caused by, friction.
- Involving conflict or difficulties
Synonyms of Frictional
Using Frictional
- The main meaning on this page is: Relating to, or caused by, friction. | Involving conflict or difficulties
- Useful related words include: resistance.
- In the example corpus, frictional often appears in combinations such as: the frictional, frictional force, frictional unemployment.
Context around Frictional
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Frictional
- In this selection, "frictional" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, acting, kinetic, unemployment, force, unemployment and properties stand out and add context to how "frictional" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amount of frictional energy would and appear in frictional s update. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "frictional" sits close to words such as abington, abled and adorno, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with frictional
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Frictional gripping is used by primates, relying upon hairless fingertips. (10 words)
A very small amount of frictional energy would still be dissipated. (11 words)
Due to frictional force, the velocity decreases in proportion to the acting frictional force. (14 words)
For example, a copper pin sliding against a thick copper plate can have a COF that varies from 0.6 at low speeds (metal sliding against metal) to below 0.2 at high speeds when the copper surface begins to melt due to frictional heating. (45 words)
A fraction of the size of the current tank, the first-generation machine could only reach around Cat-3 wind speeds but research still revealed how frictional drag between wind and water acts differently than expected at higher wind speeds. (40 words)
Accepting the claim of the preface to the Experimenta Nova that the entire work had been essentially completed before March 1663, von Guericke can be fairly credited with inventing a primitive form of frictional electrical machine before 1663. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Due to frictional force, the velocity decreases in proportion to the acting frictional force.
Frictional Games is the master of immersive first-person horror experiences that take players down a dark and memorable journey, and is no exception to this rule.
It's a more personal and slow burning type of horror, rather than the stomach-churning shock events of Frictional's other titles.
Slow slip events can occur in “velocity-strengthening” regions, but can also be an indication that the frictional properties of the fault are more complicated.
It’s funny how some patch notes just grab your imagination, and seeing “Non-Aggressive Rats” appear in Frictional’s update list certainly grabbed ours.
A fraction of the size of the current tank, the first-generation machine could only reach around Cat-3 wind speeds but research still revealed how frictional drag between wind and water acts differently than expected at higher wind speeds.
This let them alter stresses and other parameters to understand the frictional processes at work during a slow earthquake.
Accepting the claim of the preface to the Experimenta Nova that the entire work had been essentially completed before March 1663, von Guericke can be fairly credited with inventing a primitive form of frictional electrical machine before 1663.
As long as the disc rotates the brake pads act to decelerate the vehicle via the kinetic frictional forces which create a constant braking torque on the disk.
A very small amount of frictional energy would still be dissipated.
Consistent with classical unemployment, frictional unemployment occurs when appropriate job vacancies exist for a worker, but the length of time needed to search for and find the job leads to a period of unemployment.
Discussions of frictional unemployment focus on voluntary decisions to work based on each individuals' valuation of their own work and how that compares to current wage rates plus the time and effort required to find a job.
Driven by dual orthogonal vibration modes with a phase difference of 90°, the contact point between two surfaces vibrates in an elliptical path, producing a frictional force between the surfaces.
For example, a copper pin sliding against a thick copper plate can have a COF that varies from 0.6 at low speeds (metal sliding against metal) to below 0.2 at high speeds when the copper surface begins to melt due to frictional heating.
Frictional gripping is used by primates, relying upon hairless fingertips.
Frictional unemployment is the time period between jobs when a worker is searching for, or transitioning from one job to another.
Generally road-going vehicles have two brake pads per caliper, while up to six are installed on each racing caliper, with varying frictional properties in a staggered pattern for optimum performance.
Goals High employment Frictional unemployment is the time period between jobs when a worker is searching for, or transitioning from one job to another.
Here, both surface and body forces are accounted for in one total force, F. For example, F may be expanded into an expression for the frictional and gravitational forces acting on an internal flow.
He writes for the diffusion coefficient k′, where is the osmotic pressure and k is the ratio of the frictional force to the molecular viscosity which he assumes is given by Stokes's formula for the viscosity.
Common combinations with frictional
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: