Attrition

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Attrition may refer to

  • Attrition warfare, the military strategy of wearing down the enemy by continual losses in personnel and material
    • War of Attrition, fought between Egypt and Israel from 1968 to 1970
    • War of attrition (game), a model of aggression in game theory
  • Loss of personnel by withdrawal (military)
  • Attrition (research), loss of participants during an experiment.
  • Attrition (dental), loss of tooth structure by mechanical forces from opposing teeth
  • Attrition (erosion), the wearing away of rocks in rivers or the sea
  • Attrition (film), also known as Final Mission, 2018 american film
  • Imperfect contrition, also known as attrition, in Catholic theology
  • Customer attrition, loss of business clients or customers
  • Language attrition, loss of first language ability by multilingual speakers
    • Second language attrition, loss of second language ability

Proper names

  • Attrition (band), an electronic music band
  • Attrition (website), a security website

See also

  • Attrition rate
  • Deterioration (disambiguation)
  • Retention (disambiguation)
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