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Definition: Slippage |
SlippageNoun1. A decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping. 2. Decline from a standard level of performance or achievement. 3. Failing to hold or slipping out of place; "the knots allowed no slippage". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Localised area where a bituminous surfacing layer has moved horizontally on the layer beneath under the braking action of traffic. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | Any relative movement which occurs between negatives and print during exposure and during exposure on continuous printing equipment which results in loss of resolution, and in extreme cases, fuzziness. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The difference between estimated transaction costs and actual transaction costs. The difference is usually composed of revisions to price difference or spread and commission costs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:slip. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | Is defined as the elapsed time between originally estimated date of commercial operation and the actual date that was achieved. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Slippage |
| Specialty definitions using "slippage": airblast ♦ BELT REPAIRER ♦ conveyor creep, cycloidal gearing, cycloidal tooth profile ♦ dilatancy, DRAWING-KILN OPERATOR, drawing-machine operator ♦ Harmonic Tremor ♦ kiln operator, kink band, knick band, knick zone ♦ planar gliding, PUMP MECHANIC ♦ rheid folding ♦ sand distributor, SCREEN-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ variable number of tandem repeats locus, VNTR locus. (references) |
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Economic History | Zimbabwe | However, GOZ regulators generally perform their functions forthrightly, as do the courts, though slippage in both is becoming increasingly common. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Slippage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.28% of the time. "Slippage" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.28% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
slippage | 7 |
slippage transmission | 4 |
condom slippage | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "slippage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 动力 '损耗. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skluz (chute, overrun). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slip,forsinkelse, slip (briefs, creep, draft, rip-in, slip, slipping, spinning), sentælling (meter slip, slow registration), oliespild, minusvisning (meter slip, slow registration), minus- (meter slip, slow registration), kontaktglidning, horisontal forskydning (horizontal adjustment, horizontal displacement, horizontal movement, horizontal shifting), glidning (coasting, idling, sliding, slipping, to slide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | som van de transactiekosten en de marktinefficiëntiekosten, slip (briefs), verlies (lose, loss), uithollingseffect, uitholling (cavity), minwijzing (meter slip, slow registration), minaanwijzing (meter slip, slow registration), loslaten van de deklaag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لغزش (Error, Gaffe, Lapse, Peccadillo, Slide, Slip, Slither, Trip), سرک . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaakasuora siirtymä, luisuhäviö. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | retard (meter slip, slow registration), quantité d'huile perdue, patinage (slip, slipping), glissement (slide, sliding, slip, slipping), décollement du revêtement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlupf (sloop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πατινάρισμα (skidding, slip, slipping, spinning), υστέρηση (lag), αποκόλληση του τάπητα, ολίσθηση του τάπητα, ολίσθηση (slide, sliding, sliping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | slittamento (fall, postponement, skidding, sliding, slipping), slippage, scollamento del rivestimento, Perdita per scorrimento, errore in difetto (meter slip, slow registration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ずる賢い (gap, hastily, impetuously, petty, rapidly, sly, small-minded, stingy, to badger, to slide, to slip off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ずれ (gap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공 (all-time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skyrraghtys (slip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippageslay resvalamento (skid), protelamento, patinagem (skidding, slip, slipping, spinning), escorregamento (debris avalanche, flowing, landslide, landslip, mudslide, skidding, slide, sliding, slip, slipping, spinning), deslizamento (coasting, creep, creep erosion, idling, skipping, slide, sliding, slip, slipping, sloughing, to slide), descolamento da camada de desgaste, atraso (arrear, arrears, backwardness, delay, lateness, retard, retardation, retardment). (various references) уменьшение (abatement, decline, decrease, decrement, degression, diminution, downturn, lessening, mitigation, reduction, remission), спад (anticlimax, downswing, downturn, down-ward, falloff, non-event, recession, wane), проскальзывание (slip, slippages, slipping). (various references) retardo (retard, retardation, retardment), resbalamiento (slip, slipping, spinning), patinaje (skating), pérdida (bereavement, drain, failure, forfeit, forfeiture, leak, loss, outflow, wastage, waste), diferencia entre iniciación calculada de funcionamiento y la efectiva, despegue de la capa de rodadura, deslizamiento (glide, glissade), desfasaje (offset). (various references) ytavlösning, oljespill. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "slippage": slippages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slippage" (pronounced sli"pij) |
| 3 | -p i j | seepage, stoppage, stumpage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: applies, pipages. | |
-2 letters: appels, apples, espial, ligase, lipase, pipage, pipals, plages, silage. | |
-3 letters: aegis, agile, aisle, appel, apple, gales, gapes, glias, lapis, lapse, leaps, pages, pails, paise, pales, palpi, palps, peags, peals, pepla, pilea, piles, pipal, pipes, plage, pleas, plies, salep, sepal, sepia, slipe, spail, spale, speil, spiel, spile. | |
-4 letters: ages, ails, ales, alps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: pupilages, slippages. | |
+2 letters: lagniappes, papergirls, pupillages. | |
+3 letters: paraplegias, paraplegics, polyphagies. | |
+4 letters: gallinippers, papyrologies. | |
+5 letters: glasspapering, paleographies, planographies, psephological. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 69 70 70 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. .. .--. .--. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01101001 01110000 01110000 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l i p p a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0069 0070 0070 0061 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5378758282677371 |
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