Friction (disambiguation)

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Friction may refer to:

• Friction, the force that opposes the relative motion or tendency of such motion of two surfaces in contact
• Charlotte Beck, fictional paranormal in the Marvel Comics publication DP 7 who occasionally uses the codename Friction

In music

• "Friction," a song by Television from their 1977 album Marquee Moon
• "Friction," a song by Morcheeba from their 1998 album Big Calm
• "Friction," a song by Imagine Dragons from their 2015 album Smoke + Mirrors
• Friction (Coney Hatch album), 1983 album by Coney Hatch
• Friction (Stavesacre album), 1996 album by Stavesacre
• Friction (Phideaux Xavier album), 1993 album by Phideaux Xavier
• Friction (band), Japanese rock band formed in 1978
• DJ Friction, a drum and bass artist from the UK

People

• Bobby Friction, host of the "Friction" show on the BBC Asian Network

Military

• Friction, a concept introduced by Carl von Clausewitz to name how the simple things become difficult in war because of many misfortunes and mistakes. It's the disparity between the optimal performance of units, organisms or systems versus their degraded performance in combat (Book I, Chapter VII)

Finance

• A market with friction is a financial market with transaction costs.