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adj
Countering the effects of friction in machinery.
The friction of the axle-trees of these machines may be considerably diminished, by applying an improved axle-tree invented by Mr. Gottlieb, which he calls the anti-attrition axle-tree, and for which he has a patent.
We give hereunder friction and durability tests made by Mr. Thomas Nash, M.I.M.E., comparing anti-attrition metal with magnolia.
Minimizing attrition; serving to retain or recover participants, customers, members, or similar.
The present value of the antiattrition program, discounted at 5 percent per year to the first grade is only $690, while the present value of preventing attrition in high school by expenditures in elementary school is $1065.
When there is an apparent "antiattrition allowance" bias among regulators, "known's" need to be handled independently of the allowance where possible.
noun
A (usually lead or graphite-based) substance applied to machine parts in order to reduce friction; lubricant.
The remaining peroxide of iron is separated, by washing, into two parts: that which is in the finest powder, being dried and mixed with grease, is used as an antiattrition for machinery, and answers the purpose well; the coarser powder is made into small pellets, dried and treated as iron ore.
Nathaniel Partridge, of Elm Cottage, near Stroud (Gloucester), Gent.: Specification of an Invention of "The application of a certain composition paste or materials as an Antiattrition applicable to the bearings of wheels and machinery generally," being a commixture of Oil and Lime water.
Something or someone that smooths the way or makes things easier.
The prisons of France are now full of baronets and commoners from England, who long were a credit to their country, but who find no mercy from French tradesmen; par example, the antiattrition baronet, and a certain titled Greek scholar, bear testimony of the truth hereof; and Mr. D. might well be frightened out of a year's growth, when he looked round him and saw the fate of his countrymen; for it is an undeniable truth, that he who has been extravagant at home will never be prudent abroad; so that is the only way of escaping a French prison, with an unlimited term of confinement, is voluntarily to submit to limited abridgment of liberty at home.
Travellers, or sojourners in Florence, should patronise Mrs. Townly's establishment; they will find every article they may require, either for travelling or a residence. I can with confidence recommend it. The real antiattrition can be had here.