antiattrition
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Countering the effects of friction in machinery.
adj
Minimizing attrition; serving to retain or recover participants, customers, members, or similar.
Example Sentences
- "The friction of the axle-trees of these machines may be considerably diminished, by applying an improved axle-tree invented by Mr. Gottlieb, which he calls the anti-attrition axle-tree, and for which he has a patent."
- "We give hereunder friction and durability tests made by Mr. Thomas Nash, M.I.M.E., comparing anti-attrition metal with magnolia."
- "A sheave of lignumvitae cuts a wooden pin less, and is less cut by a metal one, than a sheave of any other timber; while its own sap makes it work as smoothly as other timber even when smeared with grease, black-lead, or any other antiattrition application."
- "The finer sorts from the Cumberland mine are used for making pencils; the coarser for polishing, and to make antiattrition mixtures."
- "A dense IL layer on graphene surfaces, which lubricated and protected the graphene transfer film, and improved the antiattrition performance of rubber composites [55] (Fig. 8.8)."
- "The present value of the antiattrition program, discounted at 5 percent per year to the first grade is only $690, while the present value of preventing attrition in high school by expenditures in elementary school is $1065."
Etymology
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Inflected Forms
antiattritions (plural)