frictional

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friction
noun[ U ]
us/ˈfrɪk·ʃən/

frictionnoun[U] (FORCE)

physics
the force that works against an object as it slides along the surface of another object or moves through a liquid or gas:
A gasoline engine loses over 70 percent of its energy to friction and heat.

frictionnoun[U] (DISAGREEMENT)

disagreement or dislike caused by people having different opinions:
There’s less friction in relationships when you use teamwork.

frictional

adjective[ not gradable ] physicsus/ˈfrɪk·ʃə·nəl/

frictionless

adjective physicsus/ˈfrɪk·ʃən·ləs/

Examples of friction

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While funds are free to rebalance their investments as asset prices change, there are the frictions of transactions costs and inertia.
The joint frictions have been taken into account in the proposed lagrangian model.
If trade frictions are low, conducting trade in the unorganized sector is so attractive that it may not generate sufficient profits for the intermediation business.
If trade frictions are moderate, bills circulate as a general medium of exchange, and the level of specialization is higher relative to barter.
In the latter, indeterminacy significantly relied on scale economies, whereas here it almost exclusively rests on frictions in financial market.
When trade frictions are low, conducting trade in the unorganized sector is so attractive that it may not generate sufficient profits for the intermediation business.
The amount of nominal volatility, however, is shown to vary with asset market frictions and with government policy.
The nominal frictions in terms of the degrees of price and wage stickiness are somewhat smaller in the open-economy model.
No policy implements this allocation in the decentralized economy with relocation and information frictions.
Moreover, the severity of financial market frictions is itself endogenous in the models we describe.
However, if the rate of inflation is increased excessively, real returns will be driven down to the point where credit market frictions become binding.
Singularities appear in the higher-order approximate solutions to the viscous displacement velocities and skin frictions, which coincide with the singularity of the first-order approximate solution.
Here as well, exploring frictions and incorporating more institutional detail may prove fruitful.
The critical feature here is the presence of time discounting together with trade frictions stemming from the restriction on coalition formation. 10.
The conflicts and frictions mentioned above arise from this lack of a single logic being applied to regulate the totality of the building.
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