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Failing to hold or slipping out of place
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slippage
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Slippage may refer to: Slippage (book) , a collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison Slippage (finance) , the difference between estimated transaction costs and the amount actually paid Slippage , an album by alt-country band Slobberbone . Project slippage ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, "act of slipping," from slip (v.) + -age .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping decline from a standard level of performance or achievement failing to hold or slipping out of place; "the knots allowed no slippage"
Usage examples of slippage.
She did not demand that they be important to anyone else, yet it galled her that the world had passed through those years of ordeal without significant scars, and it also imbued her with the irrational fear that if she were to enter the village, she might suffer some magical slippage back through time and reinhabit her old life.
The women on board had all undergone a little cellular reprofiling procedure to make suction tube use more convenient and less prone to slippage.
Their mass will cause slippages in the polar icecaps, creating the rise of oceans and tsunamis.
Was it because he had called in sick yesterday, and now they assumed he had been suffering from some special affliction of Rehabs, some slippage of the identity, that required extracautious handling?
There's always a little slippage in cease-fires, such as we encountered in Vietnam.
Sixty feet away, the trainees were doing their pre-supper chin-ups before going in, callused fists gripping wet bars without a sign of slippage.
He was in the process of developing an idea which he knew to be just and inspired by God, so he continued, But if men of good will were to go to Hitler and remind him of the fact that Jews and Jesus are descendants from a common stock, this infernal slippage into barbarism might be halted.
But deep in the fault zone below the bottom of the trench, the shock waves forced a vertical slippage of the earth's crust.
An air of misery and waste hangs about it, along with a quality Jack might define, if he stopped to consider it, as slippage.
Wilson of Victoria University in New Zealand offered the theory that ice ages ended abruptly in such slippages, not only in the Antarctic but also in the Arctic.
So when the eruptions began the lava and gases had melted the ice over the volcanoes, causing vast slippages overhead.
As soon as the danger of incongruities was realized, the net was modified to automatically shut down whenever the slippage reaches dangerous levels.
But not enough to fit Fujisakiâs theory that incongruities occur when the slippage required is more than the net can supply.
But not enough to fit Fujisaki’s theory that incongruities occur when the slippage required is more than the net can supply.
Optimism is a more normal state for Fred, who does not believe in slippage, and a little smile breaks on his face - the day's first.