Definition of Slippages

1. Noun. (plural of slippage) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slippages

1. slippage [n] - See also: slippage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slippages

slipform
slipformed
slipforming
slipforms
sliping
slipknot
slipknots
slipless
slipmat
slipmats
slipout
slipouts
slipover
slipovers
slippage
slippages (current term)
slipped
slipped capital femoral epiphysis
slipped disc
slipped discs
slipped disk
slipped disks
slipped hernia
slipped tendon
slipped tendon disease
slipper
slipper-orchid
slipper animalcule
slipper chair
slipper lobster

Literary usage of Slippages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Department of Energy: Opportunity to Improve Management of Major System by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"These actions could help DOE address some of the key factors leading to major cost overruns and schedule slippages for its MSAS. Over the past several years ..."

2. Competing Against Time: The Governor's Board of Inquiry on the 1989 Loma by George W. Housner (1998)
"The permanent slippages of the fixed shoe on the top of the southeast column of Tower E9 differed only slightly from those described above for the fixed ..."

3. Railway Engineering by Cecil B Smith (1899)
"In addition to these slippages we have flange friction (see Fig. 6). When the rail is new the line of pressure is nearly a point; the two forces acting on ..."

4. Railway Engineering by Cecil Brunswick Smith (1899)
"5 that the truck is turning continually around the inner rear wheel as a centre, and the aggregate slippages are as follows : (1) Rear inner wheel does not ..."

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