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Definition of Slippages
1. slippage [n] - See also: slippage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slippages
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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