slipstream in English

noun

1

a current of air or water driven back by a revolving propeller or jet engine.

This aircraft company was awarded a US Army contract to study vectored slipstreams and produce an aircraft that could test the concept.

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) another term for draft ( sense 4 of the verb ).

All the while, championship leader, Arthur Forster was concentrating on slipstreaming his fellow competitors and protecting his tyres against the abrasive Thruxton circuit.

noun

wash, race, airstream, backwash

Use "slipstream" in a sentence

1. 15 Throttle wide, he bowed into the slipstream.

2. Baby belugas ride piggy-back, pulled along by their mother's slipstream.

3. Captain, he's using the gravitational slipstream to carry him back to the center.

4. 16 He was riding in the slipstream of the cyclist in front.

5. Daren dints some Aphidians? Opposable Pascal slipstream: he prenotifying his Berne meagrely and affirmatively

6. We tried to calculate where Voyager might have fallen out of the slipstream.

7. See how BossTek uses specially engineered Atomized mist to suppress unwanted dust and odor and avoid the slipstream effect

8. Luis Garcia del Moral unless Slipstream Acceded to their demands, which included a payment of €500,000 to Trent.

9. Players can sound the truck's horn to make other cars on the road yield and slipstream behind large vehicles to gain a momentary speed boost.

10. Astrogation, short for astronavigation, is the planning of a route through space and the actual navigation of spacecraft, either subluminal maneuvering in interplanetary travel or the calculations used to perform slipstream space jumps in interstellar travel.

11. To help achieve this reduction, they replaced current cross-wind and slipstream tests with new options without jeopardising safety and introduced virtual testing for validating head pressure pulse loads and cross-wind aerodynamic loads.

12. The aerodynamic (slipstream) effects caused by the passage of moving vehicles shall be taken into account when designing the line, considering the type of structures close to the track, as described in Point 6.6 of standard ENV 1991-3.

13.  · Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of negotiations between mall developers …