Attrition vs Abrasion - What's the difference?
attrition | abrasion |
wearing or grinding down by friction
the gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve productive use of the resource.
(human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation, or death
(sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment
(theology) Imperfect contrition or remorse
(dentistry) The wearing of teeth due to their grinding
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.
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