Usually means: Lateral motion not aligned forward.
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  1. sideslip: Merriam-Webster
  2. sideslip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sideslip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sideslip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sideslip: Vocabulary.com
  6. sideslip: Wordnik
  7. sideslip: Wiktionary
  8. sideslip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sideslip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sideslip: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sideslip: Dictionary.com
  12. Sideslip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sideslip: Rhymezone
  14. sideslip: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sideslip: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. sideslip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sideslip: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sideslip: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sideslip: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sideslip: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sideslip: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sideslip)

noun:  (aviation) A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.
noun:  (aviation) A flight maneuver to rapidly lose speed and/or altitude whilst not altering the aircraft's ground track.
noun:  (aviation) A flight condition where an aircraft's longitudinal axis is not aligned with its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
noun:  (aviation, uncountable, by extension) The angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
verb:  (aviation) To perform, or place an aircraft in, a sideslip.

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