slipstream

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
2. noun A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
3. noun The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
4. noun The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
5. noun A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
6. verb To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.

   Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.

7. verb To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.

Similar words

airstream backwash wash race slipstreamer slip slant of wind distrail wall cloud snowslip

Often followed by

of and is from to as velocity was boundary

Word family

slipstreamed slipstreaming slipstreams