0 a liquid such as oil that is used to make the parts of an engine move easily together, or a substance put on any surface to help it move more easily against another one
1 a substance that is used to make parts move easily
Right now, most industrial lubricants are made with oil, but because using oil in this way is not good for the environment,inventors are developing water-based lubricants.
Water is also used in industry as a lubricant – something that can help prevent machines from wearing out when their parts move against each other.
While manipulating the spermatophore, the male also secretes saliva, which is believed to serve as a lubricant.
Thus, velocity profiles show that the lubricant does not support the shear effects at all.
To minimize contamination problems for geochemical and isotopic analyses, we avoided the use of drilling lubricants containing organic materials.
The task is not simple, as the production of the lubricant requires collective action of the dense bacterial population that the food-depleted substrate cannot sustain.
Of course, weak consensus is the lubricant of choice.
I do not deny that emotions also play a part in negotiations, but their role is only that of a lubricant.
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潤滑油, 潤滑劑…
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makina yağı, mekanik yağ…
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