Attrition
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Attrition means wearing down by friction or grinding and may refer to the following.
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In military science:
- Attrition warfare, the military strategy of wearing down the enemy by continual losses in personnel and material.
- War of Attrition, a limited war fought between Egypt and Israel from 1968 to 1970
In other uses:
- A type of fluvial or coastal erosion
- War of attrition (game), a model of aggression in game theory, formulated by John Maynard Smith
- Imperfect contrition, also known as attrition, in Catholic theology
- Attrition (website), a website related to information security
- Attrition (band), a band signed with Projekt records
- An integral component of battle in the Star Wars Customizable Card Game.
[edit] See also
fr:AttritionBiology, attrition of skin (epithelial) cells
