slipstream
English
Etymology
slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in a 1989 article.
Noun
slipstream (countable and uncountable, plural slipstreams)
- The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
- 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport[1]:
- Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.
- (uncountable) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
Translations
the low pressure zone
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A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction
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References
slipstream on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
slipstream (third-person singular simple present slipstreams, present participle slipstreaming, simple past and past participle slipstreamed)
- To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
- Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.
- (computing, transitive) To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.
- 2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003:
- You do this by slipstreaming the updates into the distribution folder.
- 2004, Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson, Microsoft Windows XP inside out
- A better solution is to create a bootable Windows XP installation CD slipstreamed with the current service pack...
- 2005, Jesper M Johansson, Steve Riley, Protect your Windows network: from perimeter to data
- It is illegal to distribute slipstreamed CDs. In some locales, it may also be illegal to create them.
Translations
to take advantage of the suction
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to incorporate additional software
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