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Definition: Frictionless |
FrictionlessAdjective1. Lacking all friction; "a perpetual motion machine would have to be frictionless". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frictionless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Crosswords: Frictionless |
| English words defined with "frictionless": liquid ♦ simple pendulum. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "frictionless": equivalent-barotropic model. (references) |
| "Frictionless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Frictionless" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.33% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
commerce frictionless | 4 |
frictionless | 3 |
air cylinder frictionless | 3 |
frictionless bearing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "frictionless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 磨". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | friktionsfri strømning (frictionless flow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wrijvingvrije vloeistof (frictionless liquid), wrijvingsloze stroming (frictionless flow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | liquide sans frottement (frictionless liquid), coussin supraconducteur sans frottement (frictionless superconducting bearing), écoulement sans frottement (frictionless flow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reibungslos (smooth, trouble-free). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ροή χωρίς τριβές (frictionless flow), υγρό χωρίς τριβή (frictionless liquid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza difficolt . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ictionlessfray líquido sem fricção (frictionless liquid), escoamento sem fricção (frictionless flow). (various references) flujo sin rozamiento (frictionless flow), rodamiento superconductor sin fricción (frictionless superconducting bearing), líquido sin fricción (frictionless liquid). (various references) friktionsfri (smooth). (various references) sürtünmesiz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "frictionless": frictionlessly. (additional references) | |
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"Frictionless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fictionless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frictionless" (pronounced fri"kshunlus) |
| 7 | -k sh u n l u s | directionless. |
| 6 | -sh u n l u s | expressionless, motionless. |
| 4 | -n l u s | boneless, brainless, hornless, painless, skinless, spineless, stainless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, bottomless, boundless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spotless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: clitorises, inflicters, inflictors, relictions, sclerotins. | |
-3 letters: cloisters, coistrels, coistrils, colistins, colitises, elicitors, filisters, flections, floristic, forensics, frictions, frontless, inclosers, infectors, inflicter, inflictor, introfies, isoclines, licensors, lionisers, loftiness, notifiers, recisions, reliction, sclerotin, scorifies, silicones. | |
-4 letters: cisterns, cistrons, citrines, clitoris, cloister, coinfers, cointers, coistrel, coistril, colistin, conifers, corniest, corslets, costlier, costrels, crinites, crosslet, crosstie, elicitor. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: frictionlessly. | |
+3 letters: electrofishings. | |
+4 letters: reclassification. | |
+5 letters: reclassifications, resolidifications. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 69 63 74 69 6F 6E 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .. -.-. - .. --- -. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01101001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r i c t i o n l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0069 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408475698675818078718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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