SLIPPAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slippage mean? 

• SLIPPAGE (noun)
  The noun SLIPPAGE has 3 senses:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: SLIPPAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIPPAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("slippage" is a kind of...):

decrease; decrement (a process of becoming smaller or shorter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Decline from a standard level of performance or achievement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("slippage" is a kind of...):

decline; diminution (change toward something smaller or lower)

Derivation:

slip (get worse)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Failing to hold or slipping out of place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the knots allowed no slippage

Hypernyms ("slippage" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Derivation:

slip (move out of position)