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PRONUNCIATION OF ASPERITIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASPERITIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Asperities is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASPERITIES

asperger
Asperger´s syndrome
Asperges
aspergill
aspergilla
aspergilli
aspergilloses
aspergillosis
aspergillum
aspergillus
asperity
aspermia
asperous
asperse
asperser
aspersion
aspersions
aspersive
aspersively
aspersoir

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASPERITIES

abilities
activities
amenities
authorities
capabilities
celebrities
cities
communities
disabilities
entities
facilities
humanities
minorities
opportunities
parties
possibilities
qualities
quantities
responsibilities
universities
utilities

Synonyms and antonyms of asperities in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ASPERITIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «asperities» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of asperities

Translation of «asperities» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASPERITIES

Find out the translation of asperities to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of asperities from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «asperities» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

粗糙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

asperezas
570 millions of speakers

English

asperities
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

asperities
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

asperities
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неровности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

asperezas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রুক্ষতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aspérités
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Asperities
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unebenheiten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アスペリティ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

돌기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Asperities
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

asperities
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆஸ்பெரிட்டிகளைக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्थिरता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pürüzleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

asperità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chropowatości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нерівності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

asperități
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Τα εξογκώματα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oneffenheden
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skrovligheter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

asperity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of asperities

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASPERITIES»

The term «asperities» is normally little used and occupies the 113.727 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASPERITIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «asperities» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «asperities» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about asperities

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASPERITIES»

Discover the use of asperities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to asperities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Adhesion Science and Engineering: Surfaces, Chemistry and ...
would be less than the asperity height for the more rigid substrate, thereby limiting van der Waals interactions to those between the asperities and the substrate. At first, it might seem as if the problem of treating asperities would be quite ...
Pocius, 2002
2
Nanotribology and Nanomechanics I: Measurement Techniques ...
The radius R and depth L were kept fixed at 25 nm, while the number of asperities was varied, and their effect on the maximum bending stresses was observed. Figure 11.28 shows the variation of the maximum bending stresses as a function ...
Bharat Bhushan, 2011
3
Tsunamigenic Earthquakes and Their Consequences
This shows that the asperities assumed from the seismic data are real. The areas of high slip can be considered asperities. With this in mind, we can study the asperity distribution of the earthquakes to draw further conclusions. If we examine  ...
‎1998
4
Rock Joints: Proceedings of a regional conference of the ...
The asperities were of equal height (50 microns) but their diameter was varied ( see Figure 1). All results in this section were generated assuming Young's modulus for the asperities and surrounding rock to be equal to 50 GPa and Poisson's ...
Nick Barton, Ove Stephansson, 1990
5
Thin Films in Tribology
To develop the present model we make the hypothesis that due to plastic flow in the early passages of a slider, the shape and height of asperities in the surface will be modified such that, in steady state, the load will be carried purely elastically ...
G. Dalmaz, T.H.C. Childs, D. Dowson, 1993
6
Surface Modeling Engineering
In all cases, the friction and wear events are due to interactions among asperities. The classical model of adhesive wear,44 Figure 5a, predicts the removal of a wear particle by the mechanism of transfer due to strong adhesion at the contact  ...
Ram Kossowsky, 1989
7
Engineering Geology: Principles and Practice
Patton (1966) analysed the situation by proposing that the angle of shearing resistance of a surface containing asperities inclined at angle i, is φb, the basic friction angle, plus i, so that the shear strength of the discontinuity with asperities is: ...
David George Price, Michael de Freitas, 2009
8
Applied Scanning Probe Methods VII: Biomimetics and ...
Therefore, the rectangular, hemispherically topped, conical, and pyramidal asperities should be considered as the most appropriate for producing the highest contact angles. In order to prevent the contact angle hysteresis, it is desirable to ...
Bharat Bhushan, Harald Fuchs, 2006
9
Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology
The controlling interactions are on a microscale and are associated with the dynamic interaction of asperities. At the very start, many asperities on one surface encounter asperities on the opposite surface and transfer load from one to the other ...
George E. Totten, 1999
10
Multiscale Dissipative Mechanisms and Hierarchical Surfaces: ...
The maximum packing parameter may be achieved by packing the asperities as tight as possible. The square of the packing parameter p2 is equal to the ratio of the foundation area of the asperities to the total surface area, therefore, the ...
Michael Nosonovsky, Bharat Bhushan, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASPERITIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term asperities is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Turbine components: bearings
... speed of about 20 rpm, the bearing surface speed and lube-film generation may be insufficient to separate the roller-to-race asperities. «Windpower Engineering, Jun 15»
2
Artist John Meyer: Explicit and elusive at the same time
... metal sculpture of Donald Judd (1928-1994) than with the asperities of paintings by Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) or Agnes Martin (1912-2004). «SFGate, May 15»
3
The past, present, and future of up-tower turbine repairs
Rough teeth or asperities on the teeth rubbing against each other create more wear. Because the planetary gears turn slowly, their metal ... «Windpower Engineering, May 15»
4
A better pitch bearing might include a sprag clutch
In this way, the design avoids false brinelling by maintaining a lubricant film and preventing adhesion of surface asperities. The video at the link ... «Windpower Engineering, Apr 15»
5
Researchers probe nanoscale properties and mechanisms of …
Absent a buffering layer of a protective film, those peaks, known as asperities, would rub against each other and quickly wear down due to very ... «Nanowerk, Mar 15»
6
L'Artisan Parfumeur Rose Privée (2015): Masterful Work {Perfume …
As the fragrance blends in, its asperities soften down. It remains quite purple - to the point of smelling like purple roses - continuing to develop a ... «Mimi Froufrou, Mar 15»
7
Penn and ExxonMobil Researchers Address Long-standing …
Absent a buffering layer of a protective film, those peaks, known as asperities, would rub against each other and quickly wear down due to very ... «Penn: Office of University Communications, Mar 15»
8
Test Drive: Ford Tourneo Courier 1.0 EcoBoost – Serenity
Comfort oriented in every possible way, the Tourneo Courier will even pass over road asperities with little (audible) complaints from the ... «INAUTONEWS, Feb 15»
9
Comical Politics In An Anything But Comical Age
... and have studiously avoided those asperities which are too apt to disgrace political disputants of all parties, and which have been not a little ... «The Federalist, Feb 15»
10
Mamma Mia! Two Italians set to travel around the world in a 1982 …
... Lorenzo and Peppino set off once again in 2014 and took Vostok on a journey which saw them traverse through the asperities of the Sahara ... «Caravan Times, Feb 15»

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