leeway

English

Etymology

lee (“side away from the wind”) +‎ way

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːweɪ

Noun

Wikipedia leeway (plural leeways)

1. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
2. 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; […]

3. (UK) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in make up leeway.

Synonyms

• (varying degree or amount of freedom): freedom, flexibility, latitude, wiggle room

Related terms

• lee
• leeward

Translations

drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction

• French: dérive (fr)
• Italian: deriva (it) f
• Japanese: (avation) 風圧量 (ja) (ふうあつりょう, fūatsuryō), (marine) 偏流量 (ja) (へんりゅうりょう, henryūryō)

• Portuguese: deriva (pt) f
• Russian: дрейф (ru) (drejf) m
• Swedish: avdrift (sv)

degree or amount of freedom or flexibility

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 余地 (cmn) (yúdì)

• Finnish: pelivara, liikkumavara
• French: latitude (fr) f

• Italian: margine di azione (it)
• Japanese: 余地 (ja) (よち, yochi), 余裕 (ja) (よゆう, yoyū)
• Russian: относительная свобода действий (ru) (otnosítelʹnaja svobóda déjstvij) f