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