friction
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Fine control over surface texture could help regulate friction, allowing small robots to either grip surfaces or slide across them.
From Science Daily
While a fragile one-year truce managed to roll back certain tariffs, the fundamental friction remains as hot as ever.
He came to see innovation arising not from like-minded or similarly trained people conversing with each other, but from a friction of ideas and approaches.
It removes friction, smooths edges, and hands you the answer before you’ve had a chance to reach for it yourself.
But there is also far less friction in learning something new or executing on something with different levels of knowledge and lower barriers.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
