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- Dictionaryslip·stream/ˈslipˌstrēm/
noun
- 1. a current of air or water driven back by a revolving propeller or jet engine.
- 2. an assisting force regarded as drawing something along behind something else: "when the U.S. economy booms, the rest of the world is pulled along in the slipstream"
verb
- 1. (especially in auto racing) follow closely behind another vehicle, travelling in its slipstream and awaiting an opportunity to pass: "he then slipstreamed and overtook me again"
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The meaning of SLIPSTREAM is a stream of fluid (such as air or water) driven aft by a propeller. How to use slipstream in a sentence.
SLIPSTREAM definition: 1. a current of air behind a quickly moving object, such as a car travelling extremely fast or an…. Learn more.
The slipstream of a fast-moving object such as a car, plane, or boat is the flow of air directly behind it.
noun. Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash ( def 2 ), wash ( def 31 ). the airstream generating reduced air pressure and forward suction directly behind a rapidly moving vehicle.
SLIPSTREAM meaning: 1. a current of air behind a quickly moving object, such as a car travelling extremely fast or an…. Learn more.
Definition of slipstream noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The area of reduced pressure or forward suction produced by and immediately behind a fast-moving object as it moves through air or water. intr.v. slip·streamed, slip·stream·ing, slip·streams. To drive or cycle in the slipstream of a vehicle ahead.
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Slipstream definition: The turbulent flow of air driven backward by the propeller or propellers of an aircraft.
A slipstream is a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid (typically air or water) is moving at velocities comparable to that of the moving object, relative to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving. [1] The term slipstream also applies to the similar region adjacent to an object with a fluid moving ...
