Leeway (band)
WordNet

noun


(1)   A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
(2)   (of a ship or plane) sideways drift
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Noun


  1. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
  2. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom
    I don't think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting.
    • 2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0321246780, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,
      Within an expression that is not -strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results;
  3. An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in make up leeway.
 
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