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noun

Abrasion n.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

The substance rubbed off.

(Med.)

(a)

A superficial excoriation of skin or mucous membranes.

(b)

Erosion of the tooth substance

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Etymology of 'Abrasion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Abrasion" Quotes from Famous Books

... heretofore, the hollows between them having the appearance of being to a considerable extent filled up with hard frozen snow; the ice itself, too, instead of being a pure white, was tinged with yellow of the hue of very old ivory; the sharp angles, also, were all worn away as if by long-continued abrasion; the ice, in fact, bore unmistakable evidence ...

— The Log of the Flying Fish - A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure • Harry Collingwood

... retrospect, my every faculty seemed exalted, and, without any thought upon the matter, I ground points upon my pins so fine, so regular, and so smooth that they would have pierced with ease the leather of a boot, or slipped, without abrasion, among the finest threads of rare old lace. When the organ stopped, and I fell back into my real world of cobwebs and mustiness, I gazed upon the pins I had just ground, and, without a moment's hesitation, I threw them into the street, and reported the lot as ...

— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton

... portions of magnetism are imparted to fractions of the steel wire as it passes between two carbon electric magnets. Each impression represents a sound wave. There is no apparent difference in the wire, no surface abrasion or other change, yet each particle of steel undergoes an electromagnetic transformation by which the sound is indelibly imprinted on it until it is wiped out by the erasing magnet. There are no cylinders to be shaved; all that is needed to use the wire again is to pass a ...

— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

Words linked to "Abrasion" : abrade, detrition, eating away, grinding, friction, attrition, eroding, scrape, graze, wound, wearing away, corrasion, rope burn, erosion, rubbing