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discrepancy
English
Alternative forms
- discrepance (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin discrepantia, from discrepans, from discrep?, from crep?. See also discrepant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s?k??p?nsi/
Noun
discrepancy (countable and uncountable, plural discrepancies)
- An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
- The state or quality of being discrepant.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:discrepancy.
Synonyms
- (inconsistency): conflict, contrariety, deviation, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, incompatibility, inconsistency, mismatch, variance, variation, dissimilarity, anomaly
- (discrepant state): discordance, anomalous
Translations
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leeway
English
Etymology
lee (“side away from the wind”) +? way
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?li??we?]
- Rhymes: -i?we?
Noun
leeway (countable and uncountable, plural leeways)
- The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
- A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.
- Synonyms: freedom, flexibility, latitude, margin, wiggle room, elbowroom
- 2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ?ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,[1]
- Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]
- (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.
Related terms
- lee
- leeward
Translations
References
- “leeway”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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