Without friction; moving or operating smoothly without resistance or rubbing between surfaces.
From 'friction' plus the suffix '-less' meaning without or lacking. This physics term describes the theoretical condition of no friction.
Physics teachers love 'frictionless surfaces' as thought experiments, but in reality, friction is everywhere—there's no such thing as truly frictionless motion, which makes the term both useful and impossible!
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