Slippage

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slippage \Slip"page\, n.
     The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  slippage
       n 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; "the knots allowed
          no slippage"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "slippage":
     avalanche, coast, comedown, debasement, decadence, decadency,
     declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy,
     degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depravation,
     depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration,
     devolution, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend,
     drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, fading, failing, failure,
     failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, glide, glissade, glissando,
     involution, landslide, landslip, lapse, loss of tone, regression,
     retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, sideslip, skid, slide,
     slip, slither, slump, snowslide, snowslip, subsidence, wane