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leeway
noun
a) The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.

I dont think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting.

b) A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom.

Within an expression that is not -strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results;

Syn: freedom, flexibility, latitude, wiggle room
See Also: lee, leeward

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