Slip

Slip

Method of losing altitude quickly in a controlled manner, involving presenting a large cross section of the aircraft to oncoming air.

0 0

Improve it

Add an image

Part of Speech: noun
Synonym(s):
Blossary:
Industry/Domain: Aviation
Category: Airplanes & equipment
Company:
Product:
Acronym-Abbreviation:

Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

Related terms

slip

Banking; Investment banking

(1) Also trade confirmation. Contract note issued by a securities, money or currency dealer in respect of a concluded transaction. (2) Form for transmitting buy or purchase orders ...

slip

Telecommunications; General telecom

The repetition or deletion of a block of bits in a synchronous or perspicacious bitstream due to a discrepancy in the read and write rates at a buffer. 2. In a sequence of ...

slip

Forest products; Forest engineering & harvesting

Relative movement in the direction of travel at the mutual contact surface of the traction or transport device and the surface that supports it.

bit slip

Telecommunications; General telecom

In digital transmission, the loss of a bit or bits, caused by variations in the respective clock rates of the transmitting and receiving devices. Note: One cause of bit slippage ...