slipstream

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
2. (broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable) A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
3. (countable, uncountable) The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
4. (countable, uncountable) The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
5. (uncountable) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.

Verb

1. To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
2. (transitive) To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.

Έννοιες

ανατροχασμός

δίνη

ρεύμα αέρα

Συνώνυμα

airstream

backwash

race

wash

🧽

slip stream

Μεταφράσεις

estela

Windschatten

rebufo

remous

sillage

Rückstrom

Heckströmung

Propellerwind

laver

🧽

race

Sillage

getto

corrente

turbilhão

seguir na cola de

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.