But with high speed more asperities are presented than in low speed, so the effect is the same in both cases.
The Cause of Sliding Friction~ is the interlocking of the asperities of one surface with those of another; and only by the riding of one set over the other, or by a rubbing down or tearing off of projecting parts, can motion take place.
This is explained by the fact that the interlocking of the asperities on each surface has a shorter time to take place in increased speed, and consequently cannot be so effective as with slow speed.
To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.
Its asperitieswere softened by the quick desert spring which tipped each thorny cactus cone with candelabra tufts of golden and carmine flowers.
She was both able and disposed to soothe her husband's mind under the asperities of business, and to be a rich blessing to her numerous progeny.
His constant good temper softened the asperities of debate; while his multifarious lore, and the quaint humor with which he enlivened its display, made him more a favorite as a speaker than some whose powers of rhetoric were far above his.
Mr. Watts-Dunton refers here to Hake’s asperities when speaking of Borrow.
His absence from the country for three years had softened whatever asperities had grown out of political of factional differences, and had quickened anew the grateful sense of his inestimable services in the war.
With all its wrongfulness and its many cruelties, there were ameliorations in the slave system which softened its asperities and enabled vast number of people possessing conscience and character to assume the relation of master.
The friction of smooth rubbing substances is less when the composition of those substances is different, than when it is the same, the particles being supposed to interlock less when the opposite prominences or asperities are not coincident.
When motion in opposite directions is given to smooth surfaces, the minute asperities of one surface must mount upon those of the other, and both will be abraded and worn away, in which act power must be expended.
The grinding is continued farther along the body of the implement than in the former examples, especially on one of the faces, and the asperities of the sides have in places been removed by the same process.
Indeed, linked as our houses are at present, we have a natural tendency to mutual good understanding, which will both prevent and soften those asperities in business which might otherwise enlarge into disagreement.
Recollect how serious every dispute becomes upon paper, when a man writes a thousand asperities merely to show or support his superior ability.
During the ensuing summer, the neglect or withdrawal of some former friends, and the open asperities of others, were often trying to his feelings.
Mr. Watts-Dunton refers here to Hake's asperities when speaking of Borrow.
The Asperities of the Early British Reviewers Book reviewers nowadays direct their attention, for the most part, to the worthy books and they habitually neglect those that seem beneath their regard.
The Asperities of the Early British Reviewers XII.
The recipe, I may add, came from Virginia in 1862, being brought home to Maine by one of my uncles, who lived for a time in an Old Dominion family, despite all the asperities of the War.
At breakfast time, however, he attempted to soften the asperities of boy life between us, by putting two trout, instead of one, on my plate.
In some cases the road from Guttanen to the Grimsel lay right over the polished rocks, asperities being supplied by the chisel of man in order to prevent travellers from slipping on their slopes.
The wind was high in the upper regions, and, catching the dry snow which rested on the asperities and ledges of the Aiguille, shook it out like a vast banner in the air.
These resistances are furnished by the numberless asperities which the mass encounters, and which incessantly check its descent, and render an accumulation of motion impossible.
Another fact is perhaps worth notice: snow rarely lies so smooth as not to present little asperities at its surface; little ridges or hillocks, with little hollows between them.
The driving action of even small reflexed asperities on awns is well illustrated by the fruits of Hordeum, which are often made by children to creep up the sleeve.
Very rare hairs above: a few blunt asperities here and there.
The friction produced by this motion destroys the asperities of the grains, and renders their surfaces smooth and capable of easy ignition.
The material is then wrought to the rough outline of the figure, by means of strong steel points, drills, and other perforating tools; and the asperities are afterwards removed with chisels, and with rasps and files of different shapes.
In the hope of softening these asperities Pitt and Grenville decided to send the Earl of Bute to Madrid in place of Jackson, who desired to escape from the insolences of that capital.
Delacroix, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, whoseasperities were so unbearable in 1796, now replied with courtesy.
In the hope of softening the asperities of Irish life, Pitt favoured the plan of founding a seminary for the training of Catholic priests in Ireland.
The banished Duke exemplifies the best sense of nature as thoroughly informed and built up with Christian discipline and religious efficacy; so that the asperities of life do but make his thoughts run the smoother.
It will blunt the keen edge of sorrow, and smooth the asperities of adversity.
These financial hazards and disputes, as turning people’s thoughts from old issues, had the effect to soften some of the asperities of Dudley’s closing years of service.
Mr. Wynne supplies an historical introduction, and his text is more faithful than that of 1841, since some of the asperities of the manuscript were softened by the earlier editor.
Age and success, so far from making him morose or supercilious, softened the asperities of his character and developed the affectionate side of it.
As his powers developed and came to be recognised, so did those slight asperities which had been observed in undergraduate days soften down and disappear.
Another time he had slid down from the terrace on the rocks, which lined the shore, and had remounted from the rocks to the terrace, by the aid of the asperities of the wall and the plants which had taken root there.
From the side of the sea, its only parapet was a few asperities of rock, more or less pronounced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asperities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
