leeway
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
lee (“side away from the wind”) + way
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[edit] Noun
Wikipedia leeway (plural leeways)
- The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
- A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom.
- I don't think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting.
- 2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0321246780, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,[1]
- Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]
- (UK) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in make up leeway.
[edit] Synonyms
- (varying degree or amount of freedom): freedom, flexibility, latitude, wiggle room
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drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction
degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
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