Sentences with phrase «less frictional»

If a stock has a book value of $ 100 and also an average market value of $ 100, 12 percent earnings by business will produce a 12 percent return for the investor (less those frictional costs, which we'll ignore for the moment).

Merged with the gas engine of course is an electric motor and CVT transaxle, and these have been redesigned, lightened, and claim 20 - percent less frictional losses.

A side benefit of this is with smaller journals, you can actually make more horsepower due to less frictional losses.

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Lesser - known frictional costs occur when you buy U.S. - dollar - denominated investments in your registered accounts.

Frictional forces are less on smooth surfaces, which is why we slide more easily when wearing socks.

Bubbles head up in the center where frictional drag from the glass is less and down on the outside as the top gets crowded.

At those speeds, the force of gravity acting on a racing car would be less than the frictional force holding the car on the wall.

They found that for an open wheeled racing car weighing around 700 kg, the force of gravity would be 8571N less than the frictional force, meaning the car would easily be able to stay on the vertical banking.

The stars are much less affected by the drag from the gas [3] and, because of the huge gaps between them, do not have a slowing effect on each other — though if two stars did collide the frictional forces would be huge.

«This transition demonstrates that shear thickening is driven primarily by frictional contacts, with hydrodynamic forces playing a supporting role at lower concentrations of particles, when mixtures are less dense,» Royer explained.

It also gets a new Honeywell variable geometry turbocharger that suffers nearly 50 per cent less in frictional losses thanks to new bearings.

CC — I agree that investing is a zero sum game, and would go further to suggest that it is really a «less - than - zero» sum game because of frictional costs such as fees, taxes, etc..

For Frictional Games, the developer has since grown from its humble roots to become a multimillion company with the successful release of the horror adventure game Amnesia: The Dark Descent, while still employing less than a dozen designers, programmers, and artists (1).