slippage
IPA: sɫˈɪpɪdʒ
noun
- The act of slipping, especially from a secure location.
- The amount by which something has slipped.
- A lessening of performance or achievement.
- A decrease in motion, or in the power of a mechanical system due to slipping.
- The difference between estimated and actual transaction costs.
- Movement of earth on a slope, a landslip.
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Examples of "slippage" in Sentences
- The pier stands tall at the slippage point.
- Assuming no slippage the speed of P is zero.
- As the boot breaks in, the slippage will stop.
- But there is certainly a lot of sideways slippage.
- Slippage is related to the concept of market depth.
- The difference between the two rates is the slippage.
- Protect it if there is any inclination towards slippage.
- If there is no slippage, then there is no spondylolisthesis.
- The control device is used to modify the slippage of the rope.
- The problem is, there's been politicking and slippage at arbcomm.
- We were forewarned by their word slippage during the campaign of '08.
- This video shows San Diego fire officials are calling a slippage of land.
- This video shows what San Diego fire officials are calling a slippage of land.
- Among all Americans, the slippage is even greater - from 59 percent in February to just 35 percent today.
- I did, but I also allowed myself some "slippage" - what the industry calls the profits lost to sneaky bartenders.
- That kind of slippage is repeatedly justified by saying that there's no time for deliberations, for archaic constitutional procedures.
- Most of the president's slippage is among Republicans; their approval of his work overall has dropped by 16 points since April and this from ABC news poll.
- Most of the president's slippage is among Republicans; their approval of his work overall has dropped by 16 points since April, from 36 percent then to 20 percent now.
- Meanwhile, Ross Walker, U.K. economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, said it's unlikely that any near-term slippage in implementing cuts will fundamentally undermine market confidence.
- Most of the bloggers talking about it seem to have assumed that it approaches perfect precision, which actually does set up a paradox at an idealized equilibrium, in that the starving ass, undeniably motivated to eat something, would be unable actually to eat anything because there would be no 'slippage' - randomness, say, or indeterminacy - for acting one way or another.