Illustration: In a community hall, a volunteer tries to slide a light folding chair across a smooth floor, unaware that one leg has landed on a rubber doorstop. The other legs glide, but the trapped rubber piece grips the surface and visibly compresses, making the chair twist toward the resisting corner.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

摩ま擦さつ

masatsu

friction

Example sentences

  1. タイヤはゴムと路面ろめんの摩擦まさつによってすり減へる。

    Tires wear down because of friction between the rubber and the road surface.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 摩擦まさつでマッチに火ひがつくようになる。

    Friction causes a match to light.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. また、摩擦まさつ熱ねつによって蒸発じょうはつした水分すいぶんを元もとに戻もどす。

    Moisture evaporated by heat caused by friction is restored.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 摩擦

  • 摩chafe; rubOnマKunまする・さする・する
  • 擦grate; rubOnサツKunする・すれる・こする

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