It also prevents food from being forced through the contact area.

Thus, the contact area between tire and track can be a couple of square feet.

If you have two 50 pound boxes with different surface contact areas to the floor.

Cold plugs are designed with more contact area, so they run cooler.

If the current gets too high, "hot spots" can develop and cause burning of the contact areas.

Obviously the absorption rate must depend on contact area and water temperature.

This process is in different stages for different parts of the contact area.

The contact area is flooded with the lubricant being tested.

"A kick transfers a lot of energy through a tiny contact area.

The contact area decreases as the speed goes up.

Load capacity may be increased by using wider wheels with more ground contact area.

Since the actual contact area is reduced, another resistance for heat flow exists.

The major issue with backward compatibility was the contact area of the chip.

The "softness of the ball" will be proportional to the contact area.

As the belt moves into the pulleys the contact area gets smaller.

As such, they are often able to spread considerable distances to maintain a large contact area with the soil.

In practice, due to small deformations at the contact area, some sliding does occur.

The line tension therefore greatly influences the catalyst contact area.

All five swept the contact area with powerful binoculars.

This maximizes the contact area between the gas bubbles and the solution.

This presents problems in determining the hardness, as the contact area is not easily found.

Instead, packing is used to increase the contact area between the liquid and vapor phases.

Contact area may depend on the normal force between the two objects due to deformation.

As the contact area is increased, stress on the joint is relieved.

Meris shrank back a little, still tender in her social contact area.