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 (ふうあつりょう, fūatsuryō); [marine] 偏流量 (へんりゅうりょう, henryūryō)

Portuguese: deriva (pt) f. Swedish: avdrift (sv)

degree or amount of freedom or flexibility

Finnish: pelivara, liikkumavara French: latitude (fr)

Italian: margine di azione (it) Japanese: 余地 (よち, yochi), 余裕 (よゆう, yoyū)