The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction.
I don't think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting.
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A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.
2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, , section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/expressions.html#249198 ]
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(British) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.
: Within an expression that is not -strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results;
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