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friction

force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other
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friction

Summary

friction ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (898 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • friction's image is recorded as Friction between surfaces.jpg[2].
  • friction's image is recorded as MCA friction net.gif[3].
  • friction's GND ID is recorded as 4049098-1[4].
  • friction's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85051971[5].
  • friction's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11941523z[6].
  • friction's subclass of is recorded as surface force[7].
  • friction's subclass of is recorded as contact force[8].
  • friction's subclass of is recorded as nonconservative force[9].
  • friction's subclass of is recorded as resistance force[10].
  • friction's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00567505[11].
  • friction's Commons category is recorded as Friction[12].
  • friction's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D017276[13].
  • friction's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 31340[14].
  • friction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02zp2[15].
  • friction's MeSH tree code is recorded as G01.374.618[16].
  • friction's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph158522[17].
  • friction's has cause is recorded as strain rate tensor[18].
  • friction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Friction[19].
  • friction's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 531.1134[20].
  • friction's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 621.89[21].
  • friction's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 531.4[22].
  • friction's PSH ID is recorded as 2973[23].
  • friction's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1117266[24].
  • friction's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0184960[25].
  • friction's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[26].

Why It Matters

friction ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (898 views/month).[1] friction has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] friction is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

cognitive friction Geoffrey Chaucer tribology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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