Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of rubbing; friction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Friction.
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- noun
friction - noun phonetics
turbulent andnoisy airflow
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hernesheir commented on the word frication
(n): (linguistics) turbulent airflow produced by forcing air through a narrow channel in the speech apparatus formed by two articulators in close proximity.
January 1, 2009