coefficient of friction

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   the ratio of the weight of an object being moved along a surface and the force that maintains contact between the object and the surface

   Broadercoefficient

Questions about coefficient of friction

What does coefficient of friction mean?

coefficient of friction means "the ratio of the weight of an object being moved along a surface and the force that maintains contact between the object and the surface".

Is coefficient of friction a common word?

coefficient of friction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.