Friction - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: frictionFrictional
Relating to friction moved by friction produced by friction as frictional electricity...
magnetic levitation
The process of supporting an object such as a vehicle with a magnetic field so that it does not contact the object supporting it it is a method used for eliminating friction in moving vehicles and is used eg in high speed rail technology where a train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction...
Separation of powers
Separation of powers, means the division of governmental authority into three branches of government viz., legislative, executive and judicial, each with specified duties on which neither of the other branches can encroach; the constitutional doctrine of checks and balances by which the people are protected against tyranny, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1370.The doctrine of separation of powers was adopted by the convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude to exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was not to avoid friction, but by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three depart-ments, to save the people from autocracy. The Development of Constitutional Guarantees of Liberty, Justice Louis Brendeis, 1957, p. 94....
Brush wheel
A wheel without teeth used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference...
Bushing
The operation of fitting bushes or linings into holes or places where wear is to be received or friction diminished as pivot holes etc...
Callosity
A hard or thickened spot or protuberance a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part eps as a result of continued pressure or friction...
Calorimeter
An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process as friction chemical combination combustion etc For combustion processes a bomb calorimeter may be used...
Chafe
To excite heat in by friction to rub in order to stimulate and make warm...
Chafing
The act of rubbing or wearing by friction making by rubbing...
Cone clutch
A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces...
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