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S vs Leeway - What's the difference?

s | leeway |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun leeway is

the drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    leeway

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia leeway) (en noun)
  • The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
  • A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom.
  • I don't think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting.
  • * 2005 , James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition , Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0321246780, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,
  • Within an expression that is not (comment)-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results;
  • (British) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in make up leeway.
  • Synonyms

    * (varying degree or amount of freedom) freedom, flexibility, latitude, wiggle room