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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
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1. The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction.
2. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility .
3. * [en]
4. * 2005 , James Gosling et al., _The Java Language Specification, Third Edition_ , Prentice Hall PTR, [0321246780] , section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”, <sup >[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/expressions.html#249198 ]</sup>
5. *: 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; [...]
6. * [en]
7. [en] An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase _make up leeway_ .
8. * [en]
**** Related terms
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- [en]
**** Translations
[drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [aviation] [ja] , [marine] [ja]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[degree or amount of freedom or flexibility]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- German: [de] , [de]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
- [R:Lexico]