Meaning & use
friction
The resistance one surface or object encounters when moving against another, or tension between people.
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Friction between the tires and the wet road made the car harder to control.
Growing friction between the two business partners eventually led to the company's split.
A note on using this word
Friction has both a literal physics sense involving surfaces and a figurative sense describing disagreement or tension between people.
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