New word: Stiction.

[NNadir]

I came across this word in the title of this paper: Practical Linear Regression-Based Method for Detection and Quantification of Stiction in Control Valves, (Seshu K. Damarla, Xi Sun, Fangwei Xu, Ashish Shah, Joseph Amalraj, and Biao Huang, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2022 61 (1), 502-514)

It means the friction that prevents bodies from movement, in this case in valves.

I feel like I should have seen this word before somewhere, and perhaps I did but ignored it.

It's a cool word. It rhymes with "friction."

I'll try it in a sentence: "The United States is failing because of stiction."

[LuckyCharms]

1. Thanks! Never heard this word before. n/t

[lapfog_1]

2. been around for many years (at least 30) as a term used

to describe a certain type of sealed media hard disk (HDD) issue with the head (controlled by a servo) cannot freely move across the platter.

What we would do at NASA would be to remove the hard drive... bang it against the edge of a hard surface on it's edge (hopefully in the direction so that the head assembly would free itself) and then put the drive back into the computer or disk enclosure. Sometimes worked...

Was a rewarding feeling anyway.

https://www.webopedia.com/definitions/stiction/

[DanieRains]

3. Been Using Term Stiction For Years

I repair computers.

[gibraltar72]

4. This is a term used in auto racing quite a bit.