Slippage

Slippage may refer to:

• Degree of slipping or loosening as result of slipperiness
• Slippage (finance), the difference between estimated transaction costs and the amount actually paid
• Project slippage, in project planning, the act of missing a deadline
• Replication slippage, nucleotide duplications created by DNA polymerase during DNA replication
• Bit slip, the loss or gain of a bit or bits, caused by variations in respective clock rates of transmitting and receiving devices

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