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slippage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slippage \Slip"page\, n. The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, "act of slipping," from slip (v.) + -age.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of slipping, especially from a secure location. 2 The amount something has slipped. 3 A lessening of performance or achievement. 4 A decrease in motion, or in the power of a mechanical system due to slipping. 5 The difference between estimated and actual transaction costs.
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"
Wikipedia
With regard to futures contracts as well as other financial instruments, slippage is the difference between where the computer signaled the entry and exit for a trade and where actual clients, with actual money, entered and exited the market using the computer’s signals. Market-impacted, liquidity, and frictional costs may also contribute.
Algorithmic trading is often used to reduce slippage, and algorithms can be backtested on past data to see the effects of slippage, but it’s impossible to eliminate entirely.
Slippage is a collection of short stories by American author Harlan Ellison. In the introduction, Ellison introduces the concept of 'slippage', or the falling apart of one's life, as the underlying theme of the book. In addition to the stories listed in the table of contents, the book includes a short narration of an unhealthy relationship with a woman named Charlotte as an example of a 'slippage' in the author's life. Charlotte was the name of Ellison's first wife, married to her from 1956 to 1960.
Several of the stories in Slippage won awards. "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" was selected for inclusion in the 1993 edition of The Best American Short Stories. "Chatting With Anubis" won the Bram Stoker Award for best short story in 1995. The collection as a whole also won a Locus Poll Award for best short story collection in 1998.
" Mefisto in Onyx" had previously appeared as an award-winning novella which had cover art by Frank Miller. It won the Bram Stoker Award in 1993 and the Locus Pool Award in 1994 for best Novella in each respective year.
Slippage includes the screenplay for " Crazy as a Soup Sandwich", which originally aired as an episode of TV show'' The Twilight Zone ''in 1989.
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, in project planning, the act of missing a deadline
- Replication slippage, nucleotide duplications created by DNA polymerase during DNA replication.
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.