side-slip

1. 1.

   slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis

   Broaderskid

Questions about side-slip

What does side-slip mean?

side-slip means "slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis".

How many syllables are in side-slip?

side-slip has 3 syllables and divides as si-de--slip under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is side-slip a common word?

side-slip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.