slipstream

FREQ #24436

n. 冲流

发音

US /ˈslɪp.stɹiːm/

词形变化

slipstreams 复数 slipstreams slipstreamed slipstreaming slipstreams 三单 slipstreaming 现在分词 slipstreamed 过去式 slipstreamed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.

    可数 比喻 不可数 引申义
  2. 2.

    The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).

    可数 不可数 航空 商务 工程
  4. 4.

    A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.

    不可数 媒体 可数
  5. 5.

    The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.

    Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.

  2. 2.

    To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.

    及物 计算机 工程 数学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

race wash airstream backwash

上位词 1

flow

词源

Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.

来源：wiktionary