leeway

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Translations

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• Rhymes: -iːweɪ

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leeway (plural leeways)

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”,^[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; […]

3. (UK) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in make up leeway.

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• freedom
• flexibility
• latitude

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