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Re: Friction

At 04:21 AM 10/18/00 -0500, Glenn A. Carlson wrote:
if Humpty Dumpty can redefine "glory" to mean "a nice knock-down
argument," Mr. Denker can redefine static/kinetic friction to mean viscous
drag.

What brought that on? According to
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=friction
we have

Friction (definition 1b):
"the force that resists relative motion between two bodies in contact"

I don't see anything there restricting it to solid unlubricated bodies.