antiattrition
Etymology
From anti- + attrition.
antiattrition means countering the effects of friction in machinery. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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.”
- 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.”
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.”
- 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”