Lexic.us

Definition of Slippage

1. Noun. A decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping.

2. Noun. Decline from a standard level of performance or achievement.

3. Noun. Failing to hold or slipping out of place. "The knots allowed no slippage"

Definition of Slippage

1. n. The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

Definition of Slippage

1. Noun. The act of slipping, especially from a secure location. ¹

2. Noun. The amount something has slipped. ¹

3. Noun. A lessening of performance or achievement. ¹

4. Noun. A decrease in motion, or in the power of a mechanical system due to slipping. ¹

5. Noun. The difference between estimated and actual transaction costs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slippage

1. a falling off from a standard or level [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slippage

slipes slipform slipformed slipforming slipforms sliping slipknot slipknots slipless slipmat

slipmats slipout slipouts slipover slipovers slippage (current term) slippages 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

Literary usage of Slippage

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

1. Bookkeeping and Cost Accounting for Factories by William Kent (1918)
"The difference in cost is termed slippage and is included in shop overhead expenses. An allowance for spoiled work, determined for each class or department ..."

2. Railway Engineering by Cecil Brunswick Smith (1899)
"(4) Front outer wheel slips laterally and longitudinally. TABLE VIII. Average slippage per wheel, per 1° Curve 5° Curve. 10' Curve. 20* Curve. ..."

3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1867)
"... it is so elastic that there is no more than the average loss from " slippage," and no force that has yet been applied has ever caused them to telescope ..."

4. Lenin's Legacy: The Story of the Cpsu by Robert G. Wesson (1978)
"THE slippage OF POWER After the Twenty-Second Congress brought Khrushchev public triumph as the author of the new party program and political frustration in ..."

5. Instruction of Disabled Men in Motion Picture Projection: An Elementary Text by James Ross Cameron (1918)
"... the belt permitting slippage below the maximum speed. It should be carefully noted that the total revolutions made by each of the three sprockets E, I, ..."

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