tribology

1. 1.

   the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication

   Broadermechanical engineering

Other forms of tribology

plural

tribologies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tribology

What does tribology mean?

tribology means "the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication".

How many syllables are in tribology?

tribology has 4 syllables: tri-bo-lo-gy. The stress falls on "bo".

Is tribology a common word?

tribology 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.