slipstream

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

airstream

backwash

race

wash

🧽

slip stream

Translations

estela

sillage

rebufo

Windschatten

remous

race

Rückstrom

Luftschraubenstrahl

δίνη

ανατροχασμός

ρεύμα αέρα

laver

🧽

Strudel

Propellerwind

Heckströmung

Etymology

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