slipstream
Noun
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Noun
slipstream
- The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
- (uncountable) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
- German: Sog, Windschatten
- Spanish: rebufo, cono de aspiración, cono de succión
- Spanish: ciencia ficción no convencional, ficción estela
slipstream (slipstreams, present participle slipstreaming; past and past participle slipstreamed)
- 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.
- (computing, transitive) To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.
- 2004, Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson, Microsoft Windows XP inside out
- A better solution is to create a bootable Windows XP installation CD slipstreamed with the current service pack...
- 2005, Jesper M Johansson, Steve Riley, Protect your Windows network: from perimeter to data
- It is illegal to distribute slipstreamed CDs. In some locales, it may also be illegal to create them.
- 2004, Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson, Microsoft Windows XP inside out
- Spanish: ir a rebufo, ir justo detrás de, ir a rueda de
- Spanish: estela, instalación integrada
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