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skin friction

noun

  1. the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


skin friction

  1. See under drag
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If it’s particularly hot, lace your shoes higher to prevent your foot from moving around in your shoe, which can cause too much skin friction.

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The SST was being built with titanium alloy because supersonic “skin friction” would heat its hull to many hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit.

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Neil Cronin, a human-locomotion researcher at the University of JyvĂ€skylĂ€ in Finland, tweeted: “Finding funding for muscle research: difficult. Finding funding for banana skin friction study: easy apparently.”

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The Jabulani ball was supposed to remedy some of the unpredictability created by skin friction and pressure drag.

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Another kind of drag that affects trajectory is called skin friction drag — the interaction of air particles with the particles on the surface of the ball.

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