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Abrasion vs Resistance - What's the difference?

abrasion | resistance | Related terms |

Abrasion is a related term of resistance.


As nouns the difference between abrasion and resistance

is that abrasion is abrasion while resistance is resistance (all meanings).

abrasion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
  • (obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
  • (geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
  • An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
  • (medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
  • (dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * abrade

    See also

    * contusion * laceration

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    resistance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * resistaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

  • The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}
  • (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
  • (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
  • An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

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