leeway
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈliːˌweɪ]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːweɪ
Noun
leeway (countable and uncountable, 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.
- 2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, →ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,
- 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; […]
- 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, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,
- (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.
Synonyms
- (varying degree or amount of freedom): freedom, flexibility, latitude, wiggle room
Translations
drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction
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degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
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