Associations to the word «Slippage»

Wiktionary

SLIPPAGE, noun. The act of slipping, especially from a secure location.
SLIPPAGE, noun. The amount something has slipped.
SLIPPAGE, noun. A lessening of performance or achievement.
SLIPPAGE, noun. A decrease in motion, or in the power of a mechanical system due to slipping.
SLIPPAGE, noun. The difference between estimated and actual transaction costs.

Dictionary definition

SLIPPAGE, noun. A decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping.
SLIPPAGE, noun. Decline from a standard level of performance or achievement.
SLIPPAGE, noun. Failing to hold or slipping out of place; "the knots allowed no slippage".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin