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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping;

2. decline from a standard level of performance or achievement;

3. failing to hold or slipping out of place;
- Example: "the knots allowed no slippage"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slippage \Slip"page\, n. The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

slippage n 1: a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping 2: decline from a standard level of performance or achievement 3: failing to hold or slipping out of place; "the knots allowed no slippage"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "slippage": avalanche, coast, comedown, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration, devolution, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, glide, glissade, glissando, involution, landslide, landslip, lapse, loss of tone, regression, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, sideslip, skid, slide, slip, slither, slump, snowslide, snowslip, subsidence, wane