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Verb
/ˈslipˌstrēm/,
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slipstreams, plural;
  1. (esp. in auto racing)Another term for draft (sense 4 of the verb)

  2. Travel in the slipstream of (someone), esp. in order to overtake them

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

  2. The partial vacuum created in the wake of a moving vehicle, often used by other vehicles in a race to assist in passing

  3. 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
  1. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
  2. A slipstream is a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid (typically air or water) is moving at velocities comparable to the moving object (in comparison to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving). ...
  3. Slipstream is a 1967 film directed and written by Steven Spielberg and Roger Ernest that went unfinished.
  4. Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction themes, such as taking place in a dystopian future in which the landscape of the Earth itself has been changed and is windswept by storms of great ...
  5. Slipstream is a 2007 American science fiction film starring, written, scored, and directed by Anthony Hopkins, which explores the premise of a man who is caught in a slipstream of time and remembers his own future. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
  6. Slipstream (full title: Slipstream - The Best of British Jazz-Funk) is a 1981 compilation album released by Beggars Banquet Records. The title track is by British jazz fusion duo Morrissey-Mullen.
  7. Slipstream were formed in 1994 after Mark Refoy left Spiritualized. The band consisted of Ian Anderson on guitar, Gary Lennon on bass, Steve Beswick on drums and occasional appearances from Jonny Mattock who had also stopped drumming for Spiritualized later that year. ...
  8. Slipstream (Davis Cameron) is a fictional character in Marvel Comics universe. He is a superhero associated with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Salvador Larroca, he first appeared in X-Treme X-Men #6 (December 2001).
  9. A slipstream processor is an architecture designed to reduce the length of a running program by removing the non-essential instructions. It is a form of speculative computing.
  10. In computer jargon, to slipstream updates, patches or service packs means to integrate them into the installation files of their original software, so that the resulting files will allow a direct installation of the updated software.
  11. Slipstream is a game developed by Silent Bay Studios and hosted on the games website Candystand.com. The setting of the game is in a vast, metal tunnel with many scattered obstacles. The player plays as a futuristic ship zooming through the tunnel. ...
  12. Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction/fantasy and mainstream literary fiction.
  13. Slipstream is a literary press, founded in 1980 in Niagara Falls, New York, that publishes poetry and short fiction by both new and established writers. Charles Bukowski, Sherman Alexie, Gerald Locklin, Wanda Coleman, Lyn Lifshin, David Chorlton, J.P. ...
  14. Slipstream is a radio drama by Simon Bovey originally broadcast on BBC 7. It combines a story of a raid by British commandos into Germany during World War 2 with a science fiction story concerning a new Nazi aircraft capable of fantastic speeds, which shot down 150 Allied bombers during a ...
  15. the low pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence; To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator; To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer
  16. The wake of air left behind a Formula One car when it drives is less dense than the air in front of the car. This less dense air is easier to pass through for a following car. ...
  17. The still air behind a rider which is significantly easier for another cyclist to ride in.
  18. Term used to denote cyberpunk fiction, particularly pre-1984 fictional works that have been influential to the mirrorshades group or that closely resemble cyberpunk, but are sometimes outside of the sf genre. An example would be William S. Burroughs.
  19. The area of least wind resistance behind a rider.
  20. wind shelter provided by leading cyclist or group.
  21. the pocket of calmer air behind a moving rider. Also called the draft.
  22. The "burble" of turbulence generated by an object passing through air or space, as the airstream or backwash (wash) around an aircraft from its propulsion. Also refers to the pocket of reduced air pressure and forward suction generated behind a moving object, craft or vehicle.
  23. The pocket of air created by a moving rider, just as in automobile or motorcycle racing. See "drafting".
  24. A slipstream is a region of reduced pressure produced behind an object as it moves through a fluid medium (usually air) or as that medium moves around an object. ...
  25. The slipstream on the Dauntless is being created when the energy from the quantum drive is routed through the main deflector; according to the message from Admiral Hayes that Arturis decrypts, slipstream technology is experimental and high risk but has come a long way in the past year; Janeway ...