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Перевод: attrition

[существительное]
трение; изнашивание от трения; истирание; истертость ; потертость ; истощение; изнурение; отсев

Тезаурус:

1. While we have strong reserves to support the pound it is likely Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh Pemberton would advise a Labour Chancellor to combine firm words with firm deeds if support from the Bundesbank and our other exchange rate mechanism partners is to be assured and a drawn-out war of attrition avoided.
2. Some of these phases may dissolve and the coatings will break down by a combination of solution and particle attrition as less soluble particles break free and migrate into the body.
3. At the most recent target for the Antipodian Don Quixote, who tilts not at windmills but at woodturners, and not wishing to turn a non-existent battle into a war of attrition, I can only wonder who Mike Darlow will focus his attentions on next!
4. In order to measure the effects of water transport more precisely, Korth (1979) simulated stream action by artificial attrition in a rotary tumbler, mixed with a fine quartz matrix (grain size 2-;4 mm in diameter) and water, for a total of 80 hours.
5. The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use.
6. After a 10-year war of attrition against the law of averages, the resulting films brought realisation that possible surfacings were rare, brief, and exposed little that was useful to photography.
7. In all cases, the bones are protected from weathering, but there may be further breakage or attrition if secondary transport or trampling occurs, and there may be surface corrosion of the bone in acid (or highly alkaline) conditions.
8. The attrition of the last two decades has been severe.
9. Attrition, bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there, and although Carlotta, kept in ignorance, might have been devastated by the news, it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus.
10. He says it is difficult to sustain solidarity here: the daily attrition of labour, exhaustion and hunger undermine the will of even the most committed.
11. Corrosion and metal attrition were little more than would be found in a five-or-ten year-old ship.
12. While these tactics usually spare the symbiont from ant attack they are not perfect, and the attrition rate of ant guests must be fairly high especially in newly-forged partnerships.
13. This was followed by perforation of the thin bone of the skull and mandible, and of such bones as the pelvis and scapula, and then by attrition of the edges of the teeth, but not breakage.