slippage

slippage
   mental illness or decline
   Not the ability to skate, nor used to denote physical deterioration:
    I learned all this much later from my mother who, after my father's death, had begun to show signs of slippage. (Desai, 1988)

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  • Slippage — is any undesired movement.Slippage can also refer to: *Slippage (book), the short story collection by Harlan Ellison. *Slippage (finance) *Project slippage …   Wikipedia

  • Slippage — Slip page, n. The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • slippage — 1850, from SLIP (Cf. slip) (v.) + AGE (Cf. age) …   Etymology dictionary

  • slippage — [slip′ij] n. 1. the act or an instance of slipping, as in meshing gear teeth 2. the amount of this 3. the resulting loss of motion or power, as in a chain or belt drive …   English World dictionary

  • Slippage — The difference between estimated transaction costs and actual transaction costs. The difference is usually composed of revisions to price difference or spread and commission costs. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * slippage slip‧page… …   Financial and business terms

  • slippage — The difference between estimated transactions costs and actual transactions costs. The difference usually represents revisions to price difference or spread and commission costs. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * slippage slip‧page [ˈslɪpɪdʒ]… …   Financial and business terms

  • Slippage — The difference between the expected price of a trade, and the price the trade actually executes at. Slippage often occurs during periods of higher volatility, when market orders are used, and also when large orders are executed when there may not …   Investment dictionary

  • slippage — slip|page [ˈslıpıdʒ] n [U and C] formal 1.) failure to do something at the planned time, at the planned cost etc ▪ Slippage on any job will entail slippage on the overall project. 2.) when something becomes worse or lower slippage in/of ▪… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • slippage — [[t]slɪ̱pɪʤ[/t]] slippages N VAR Slippage is a failure to maintain a steady position or rate of progress, so that a particular target or standard is not achieved. ...a substantial slippage in the value of sterling... We want to stop the slippage… …   English dictionary

  • Slippage — Unter Slippage (engl.: verrutschen ) versteht man: in der Genetik das Verrutschen der DNA Polymerase bei der Replikation unter Schlaufenbildung des neusynthetisierten Stranges. Bei der Reparatur wird dann jedoch der Matrizenstrang erweitert,… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • slippage — slip|page [ slıpıdʒ ] noun uncount the action of slipping or moving, or the amount by which something slips or moves a. a situation in which something is delayed or not achieved when it should be: Some slippage is acceptable as long as the final… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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