lubricity
Use Lubricity in a sentence
ɪ noun, plural lu·bric·i·ties.
1.
oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
2.
3.
instability; shiftiness; fleeting nature: the lubricity of fame and fortune.
4.
lewdness; lustfulness: lasciviousness; salaciousness.
5.
something that arouses lasciviousness, especially pornography.
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Lubricity
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | formal, literary or lewdness or salaciousness |
| 2. | rare smoothness or slipperiness |
| 3. | capacity to lubricate |
| [C15 (lewdness), C17 (slipperiness): from Old French lubricité, from Medieval Latin lubricitās, from Latin, from lūbricus slippery] | |
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Example sentences
It provides high-level lubricity performance, which can offset the use of conventional chlorinated additives.
Lubricity of the synthetic material was similar to that of commercial winter diesel fuel.
With hip-hop pushing toward the explicit, they now dispense sweet nothings as a thin cover for lubricity.
The nonmetallic properties include high thermal resistance, inertness, and lubricity.
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