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/lˌubrɪkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Lubrication

noun

The condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant.

An application of a lubricant to something.

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"Lubrication" Quotes from Famous Books

... possibly be finer. It wouldn't at all do, he saw, that anything should come up for him at Chad's hand but what specifically was to have come; the greatest divergence from which would be precisely the element of any lubrication of their intercourse by levity It was accordingly to forestall such an accident that he frankly put before the young man the several facts, just as they had occurred, of his funny alliance. He spoke of these facts, pleasantly and obligingly, as "the whole story," and felt that he might ...

— The Ambassadors • Henry James

... N. smoothness &c adj.; polish, gloss; lubricity, lubrication. [smooth materials] down, velvet, velure, silk, satin; velveteen, velour, velours, velumen^; glass, ice. slide; bowling green &c (level) 213; asphalt, wood pavement, flagstone, flags. [objects used to smooth other objects] roller, steam ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

Words linked to "Lubrication" : application, coating, lubricate, condition, status, covering